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THE LAST WEEK IN REVIEW SEPTEMBER 14-21, 2016 COMPILED BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN, MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO

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Gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter, a Dem, debated an empty chair last week on Mike Smith’s WDEV radio show.

That’s not a dig at Phil Scott — the Republican didn’t show.

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An ag vehicle in Shoreham lost a tire that then caught fire, flew through a window and landed in a man’s living room. Farm to table!

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A rare corpse flower is expected to bloom this week at Dartmouth College.

Leaf-peepers can now see and smell the sights.

Chevy Chase will star in a made-forTV flick called A Vermont Christmas Vacation. Lights, camera, Griswolds!

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A 58-year-old Bradford man admitted in federal court last week that he’d defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs by falsely claiming he’d served in the Army during the Vietnam War — even though he was only 17 when the war officially ended in 1975.

David Vincent Borry visited the VA hospital in White River Junction more than 100 times for “therapy, podiatry and vision care.” In 2014, investigators determined that Borry’s only military service consisted of 27 days in the National Guard. When confronted, he told investigators that “the only thing in life” he did “not want to lose” was his Second Amendment right to own guns. Guess what? Defrauding the VA of more than $50,000 happens to be a felony, meaning the conviction makes it illegal for Borry to own firearms.

“I’m fucked,” he told investigators after getting the bad news. “I have 47 guns.”

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a sampler of citizen shenanigans

In a tweet last week, @MorristownVT — “the unofficial account for all things Morristown/Morrisville” — unintentionally won the internet when it called out inconsiderate locals for unauthorized munchies raids on local produce: “˜ e people smoking and getting high at Oxbow Park have to stop eating the vegetables in the Community Gardens afterwards. ˜ is is stealing.” While Morristown police have received no official complaints about broccoli-bumming burnouts, community garden organizer Stephen Jennings says that veggie thefts are a perennial issue — though not necessarily due to pot smokers. “I probably know a lot of stoners,” Jennings told Seven Days, “but I don’t know any who steal radishes and carrots.”

1. “Racial Incidents Mar Burlington High Homecoming Football Game” by Molly Walsh. Two incidents with racial overtones occurred at a football game last week against Rice Memorial High School.

2. “Unarmed Winooski Man Shot Seven Times in Deadly Police Shooting” by Mark Davis. A Franklin County sheriff’s deputy shot a man on Friday evening.

3. “Inside the von Trapp Bierhall, SoftOpening September 15” by Hannah Palmer Egan. ˜ e Stowe brewery is going big.

4. “Unfinished Business: How Phil Scott Lost a Nightclub” by Paul Heintz. Long before Phil Scott had a successful business, a Montpelier nightclub he co-owned went under.

5. “Man Killed in Officer-Involved Shooting in Winooski” by Mark Davis. ˜ e shooting happened behind the busy O’Brien Community Center on Malletts Bay Avenue.

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˜ e Vermont attorney general cleared a Hartford police officer of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a pit bull that attacked one of the cop’s dogs, calling the puppycide “reasonable and justified” under state law.

On June 26, Logan Scelza was off-duty at the Watson Upper Valley Dog Park in White River Junction with his huskies, Kato and Echo, when a pit bull, Diesel, got into a scrap with Kato. When Scelza couldn’t get Diesel to release Kato’s throat, he fired three warning shots and then pumped four rounds into the pooch. Kato was later treated for throat lacerations. Cheryl Gray, a friend of the dead dog’s owner, brought Diesel to the park that day. She told WPTZ the AG’s ruling left her “shocked and disgusted.”

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GREED, IN DEED

One cannot help but sympathize with the Thibault family [“Brothers’ Keeper,” August 31]. Losing two of three children to something as senseless as drug overdose has got to be really tough. Nevertheless, I find Robert Sand’s point of view on this problem quite compelling. Sand’s argument of a “souped-up motorcycle,” however, could use some refinement.

Here’s a better one: For years, Ford sold an automobile called the Pinto, which earned a reputation for exploding on impact in the event of a rear-end collision.

The automaker continued selling it for some time despite knowing full well its problem.

Anyone buying a souped-up motorcycle knows the risks associated with previous-owner-installed “performanceenhancing-modifications.” Indeed, often the buyer wants the enhanced performance of the modified product, despite the risks. On the other hand, Ford’s exploding-on-impact Pinto was sold right along with other stock automobiles, with no indication whatsoever that it was more dangerous than other models, and no benefit to the buyer for accepting the risk … just like heroin laced with fentanyl is sold right along with plain heroin as if it’s all the same stuff.

This is a whole separate class of crime, or murder, if you will — ignoring the “collateral” killing of people for continued profit. What about military contractors

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who sell “precise bombing” technology that inexplicably misses many of its targets and kills thousands of innocent civilians? The problem is known but not fixed, because there’s more profit in continuing to sell defective technology.

Whether death from consumption of fentanyl-laced heroin should result in murder charges being filed against the seller of the heroin is a good question to consider. But if we’re going to punish some ghetto crackpot drug dealer for a crime we might call “collateral damage murder,” we should also punish big corporations for the same crime. How often does that happen?

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BOBCAT CALLS

The September 7 paper carried an ad [page 25] depicting a helpless bobcat clamped in a merciless trap, doomed to be bludgeoned or shot, then skinned. It notified the public that Vermont’s Fish & Wildlife Department is presently being petitioned by trappers to extend the season for bobcats and otters.

It is preposterous to further beleaguer and decrease already stressed populations.

This petition should be rejected outright and doesn’t merit even cursory consideration. Even if Vermont were overrun with bobcats, which it isn’t, trapping would be an inefficient method of population control.

New Hampshire bans the trapping of these beautiful, elusive animals. The only reason

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it’s allowed in our fair state is because the trappers are getting paid big bucks for the pelts, and that’s all that seems to matter here.

I went to the F&W website to learn more.

How can bobcats be listed as “a species in greatest conservation need” on F&W’s own website and a trapping season be permitted at all? To even consider extending the trapping deadline because the trappers want it is a travesty and simply shows how blatantly the F&W board operates in the interests of the trappers and their barbaric trade.

Fortunately there’s another website, protectourwildlifevt.org, which provides information about safeguarding animals and urges the public to speak up for Vermont’s wildlife. Please, if you care about animals, learn what you can do — and do it.

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Last week’s art preview “Moved by the Spirit” featured an illustrated narrative of the creation of Odzihozo or Rock Dunder created by Thea Lewis and Ian Webb. It first appeared in the May 2014 issue of Kids VT as “Drawing on History: Rock Dunder.”

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[Re “Remaking Vermont,” August 31]: Oh, pooh, your three-page article was disappointingly clinical, more concerned with historical context yet leaving out some litmus-test facts: assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, plus the Vietnam War that triggered a mass exodus outta college and city life and into the hills and farmlands of Vermont. I was one of those young people who arrived in 1967 (for a job at Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe) and got booted out by Momma von Trapp for owning an underground newspaper. The next two years were spent wandering around northern Vermont until settling in Caledonia County.

Of the hundreds of young people I met, no one thought themselves a part of a “movement” or philosophy, but they definitely wanted a life with more value and meaning. We didn’t know what the hell we were doing, thankful that neighbors were willing to teach us Survival 101. We scrounged for materials, food to eat, used clothing and supplies for winter, always sharing info as the months turned into a year. The whole thing was very organic, even after pregnancies gave women the idea to birth at home, scrub soiled diapers by hand or learn about brown rice being a cheap but healthy food source.

The whole experience was magical yet terrifying. It felt right, made us happy to be alive. As drugs or alcohol took over, everything soured and became shabby. We didn’t realize the effect until too late.

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Kevin J. Kelley overstates when he notes that 40,000 flatlanders moved to Vermont in the 1970s and brought with them a freak flag to fly [“Remaking Vermont,” August 31; Live Culture: “Vermont Historical Society Talks Freaks, Radicals and Hippies,” September 11]. Most of them were decidedly not freaks, radicals or hippies. He leaves out one extremely large cohort: ski bums.

Ski bums knew all the words to the Crosby, Stills & Nash song — and some were Deadheads — but it was skiing that brought them here. In fact, nearly everyone I met in Vermont from 1974 to 1980 came to ski and stayed. Many, like myself, were day-tripping hippies with long hair, beards and a few ounces of pot. They loved the Vermont air, landscape, ambience and the casual, free-floating lifestyle; they only looked like hippies. These “ski bums” got jobs in order to get a free ski pass at Sugarbush, Mad River, Killington or Stowe. The Mad River Valley was wall-to-wall ski bums working as waiters, busboys, lift operators, ski instructors, firewood stackers, house painters, bartenders, carpenters and anything else that promised a free ski pass. I suspect that ski bums outnumbered communards by five or even 10 to 1.

The ski bums stayed, matured, started families, built houses, started businesses, became selectmen, drank PBR until craft beer was invented and read Seven Days’ predecessor, the Vermont Vanguard. The Vermont Historical Society should honor the ski bums who made a much more lasting contribution to Vermont than a short stack of misguided and underwhelming communards.

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LOOKING FORWARD

SEPTEMBER 21-28, 2016 VOL.22 NO.02

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NEWS 14

Moran on Main?

Officials Seek Solutions for Memorial Auditorium

BY KEVIN. J. KELLEY

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ARTS NEWS 20

Excerpts From Off Message

Sculptor Lars Fisk Is On a Roll

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A New Documentary Gives Voice to the Silent Struggle of Eating Disorders

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BY SEVEN DAYS STAFF

A Photographer Documents Memorial Auditorium

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Divining ClimateChange Anxiety, One Artist Offers Tarot in a Tent

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Strung Out

Music: Kelly Ravin’s alt-country gem, Bonneville

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Lost and Found

Books: Lost Wax: Essays, Jericho Parms

BY JULIA SHIPLEY

BY RACHEL ELIZABETH JONES

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Glass Action

Art: Competitive glassblowers go big or flame out at Pipe Classic 11

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BY SADIE WILLIAMS

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‘TV’ T.J. Donovan

Politics: ” e likely next AG has an unlikely cause: criminal justice reform

BY MARK DAVIS

BY LUKE BAYNES

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FEATURES

BY KEVIN J. KELLEY

State Auditor Doug Hoffer Wants to Keep His (59th) Job

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Moving Past

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OM OSTLER of White River Junction was just about to bite into an Italian sausage at the Tunbridge World’s Fair last Thursday when Sen. DAVID ZUCKERMAN (P/D-Chittenden), a candidate for lieutenant governor, came by and handed him a campaign flier.

La Mer “I just really haven’t followed the Natura Bissé race,” Ostler told a reporter after Zuckerman had moved on.

Bobbi Brown Ostler wore a green T-shirt that deTrish McEvoy clared “Farmers keep Vermont green” Laura Mercier and described himself as “pretty liberal.”

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But voters paying attention will find as sharp a contrast between the candidates as any in Vermont politics.

Zuckerman, 45, is a gregarious, ponytailed farmer who champions liberal causes. Brock, 72, is a starch-shirted former risk manager who still maintains his Army-trained posture.

Brock and Zuckerman have this in common: Both came to Vermont to attend college and got hooked on the state. Both started their own businesses: Brock International Security Corporation and Full Moon Farm, respectively. Both served four years in the Senate.

But there the commonalities end.

At WDEV Radio’s Tunbridge debate — where candidates competed for attention with mooing cows and clucking chickens — Zuckerman touted marijuana legalization as a prime opportunity to bring in new state tax revenues.

Brock doubted tax revenues would significantly exceed state costs.

Zuckerman criticized corporate campaign contributions. Brock denounced public financing of campaigns.

Brock emphasized the importance of childhood vaccinations. Zuckerman argued that government shouldn’t mandate them.

Zuckerman supported mandatory background checks on all gun sales.

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Brock opposed any changes to state gun laws.

Zuckerman, who started his political career at age 25 as a member of the Vermont House, can’t seem to finish a sentence without invoking the name of Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.). His fliers prominently declare, “Endorsed by Bernie.”

Brock, a former state auditor, didn’t get into politics until he retired from Fidelity Investments. Ever at ease with numbers, he contests Zuckerman’s claims about jobs added in Vermont over the last six years and tells his audience that Vermont has fewer people employed in 2016 than it did in 2007.

ZUCKERMAN, 45, IS A GREGARIOUS, PONYTAILED FARMER WHO CHAMPIONS LIBERAL CAUSES. BROCK, 72, IS A STARCH-SHIRTED FORMER RISK MANAGER WHO STILL MAINTAINS HIS ARMY-TRAINED POSTURE. Brock cautions that Vermont can’t afford to chase the first-in-the-nation initiatives that Zuckerman promotes, such as single-payer health care. “Would you want to be the first person to have a heart transplant?” Brock asked as the two candidates met for the second time, four days later, at Sen. BILL DOYLE’s (R-Washington) Johnson State College political science class on Monday.

“I think it’d be great to be first, Randy,” Zuckerman countered later in the discussion, arguing that Vermont can lead the nation in green jobs.

Brock’s cautious reserve, on display during their first two encounters of the general election, is his selling point, but it hampers his ability to ignite an audience. In an interview, he conceded that when he ran against Democratic Gov. PETER SHUMLIN in 2012, he never got voters’ attention. As much as he tried to sound the alarm that year about the troubled Vermont Health Connect

insurance exchange, it would be two more years before anyone heard it.

How will Brock counter his own quietude? He deadpanned: “First, I’m going to get a DONALD TRUMP wig and I’m going to say some really outrageous things.”

He is, in fact, no fan of Trump and the most unlikely person to say anything outrageous.

Zuckerman has his own Achilles’ heel. If he is going to win over Vermont voters in November, the Prog is going to have to prove he’s more than head cheerleader for leftist causes — specifically, that he can govern responsibly.

It’s an area Brock intends to exploit.

Five times in Vermont history, Brock reminds his audiences, a lieutenant governor has been called upon to serve as governor.

“The first governor — 1797, THOMAS CHITTENDEN — died in office,” Brock says.

“The person filling that office has to have the kind of background and focus and ability to be able to step up if need be.”

For Brock, that qualifies as a zinger.

Tale of Two Podiums This is how things go when you are a candidate running against a 42-year incumbent senator: Half an hour before Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) was scheduled to hold a Monday morning press conference at Burlington High School, his Republican challenger, SCOTT MILNE, stood on the public sidewalk across the road.

Milne had announced on short notice that he’d be there and hoped to catch reporters on their way to the Leahy event.

For a podium, Milne had repurposed a discarded plastic sign-holder, to which he taped his campaign sign. When reporters attached their microphones, the weight was almost too much for the flimsy structure to hold.

Milne called on Leahy to release documents that would indicate what, if any, involvement he had in Northeast Kingdom development projects that were funded by an immigration investment program known as EB-5. Those enterprises are now under federal and state investigation. Milne argued that Leahy should also release any correspondence related to motion picture projects that received EB-5 funding.

Last week, VTDigger.org reported that Leahy’s daughter, ALICIA LEAHY JACKSON, is a Motion Picture Association of America lobbyist.

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plane, he protested, but reporters closed in on him anyway.

He stopped to answer a question about what he had specifically done to secure the grants from Congress. “I worked like mad for them,” he said, noting he’s on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

“I spent a lot of evenings, a lot of weekends, to get extra money.”

VSAC president SCOTT GILES concurred that Leahy’s seniority helped him secure more money for the program nationally, which gave VSAC a better chance at getting a share.

Leahy was less eager to answer other questions — EB-5 related ones. He grew more irritated as reporters echoed Milne’s complaints. “You can’t just attack people,” Leahy fumed, arguing that Milne has focused his entire campaign on criticizing him. “What is his position on getting students higher education? He hasn’t said a word.”

Milne has, rather deliberately, focused his campaign to suggest that Leahy and other longtime incumbents are the issue.

As Leahy stood surrounded by reporters, a BHS staffer rescued him.

“We’re so happy you’re here,” she said, drawing the senator into a cluster of students and staff for photos. “Any other teachers want to get in with this great man?”

Suddenly, late-for-his-plane Leahy had plenty of time for selfies. Minutes passed as he chatted with students about FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT and WINSTON CHURCHILL. Reporters waited him out. As Leahy finally made his way to the door, he was asked: Did he know CHARLES LEAMY, an

immigration lawyer who worked on the discredited EB-5 projects? Leamy had contributed $5,000 to Leahy’s reelection campaign in 2014, just as EB-5 developer BILL STENGER was called up by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to answer some pointed questions.

“I may have met him, but it doesn’t ring a bell,” Leahy said.

As Leahy reached a car waiting outside, reporters asked more EB-5 questions that Milne had raised. Leahy shot back: “If he’s accusing me of doing something, he should call the U.S. Attorney’s Office. I’m tired of him … He makes baseless charges.”

Maybe so, but Milne also managed to make the senator veer from his upbeat script.

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Imagine Rep. CYNTHIA BROWNING’s surprise when she learned she was among 20 Democrats pictured in a Republican ad that criticizes retiring Gov. Shumlin’s legacy.

Browning is a Democrat from Arlington, but she has been a consistent thorn in the side of the Shumlin administration and her own party’s House leadership. Anybody who’s spent more than five minutes watching the Vermont legislature would figure that out.

In 2014, Browning sued Shumlin to find out how he planned to finance his since-dropped plan for universal health coverage. She periodically stands with Republicans at press conferences as they rail against Democratic decisions.

Yet the Washington, D.C.-based

Republican State Leadership Committee included Browning’s head shot in a recent digital ad campaign and on a website, shumlinlegacy.com. The group said she and a slate of other Democrats are responsible for helping Shumlin leave a legacy of “higher taxes” and “less local control.” It also singled out some of the most conservative Dems in the Statehouse, including Rep. JIM CONDON of Colchester and Sens. JOHN RODGERS and BOBBY STARR, both of Essex/Orleans.

The list was clearly assembled by somebody outside Vermont who viewed all Democratic legislators who face Republican opponents as equally reprehensible.

“This may be another sign of Republican incompetence,” says Browning, who is an equal opportunity critic. “This is really, really sloppy.”

Vermont Republicans see Browning differently. She is in a two-seat district in which Republican BRIAN KEEFE is running against her and Rep. STEVE BERRY (D-Manchester). Who would House minority leader DON TURNER (R-Milton) like to see win in November? Keefe and Browning, he says, without hesitation.

When Fair Game asked RSLC spokeswoman ELLIE HOCKENBURY last week why Browning was targeted, she said, “These are all Democrats who empowered or were ineffective in stopping the worst of Gov. Shumlin’s legacy.”

Days later, however, Browning was gone from the website. Why? Hockenbury wouldn’t say. m Paul Heintz is on vacation. He will return next week.

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“It should not be this difficult to get information out of a U.S. senator,” Milne said, calling for legislation to subject members of Congress to federal publicrecords laws.

And this is how things go when you are a 42-year incumbent senator running for reelection: As Milne finished up his impromptu press conference, Leahy walked into the BHS lobby, where a throng of cheering students and teachers greeted him.

Awaiting Leahy was a wooden podium, a backdrop of smiling students and a phalanx of reporters.

Leahy was there to celebrate a sixyear, $2.8 million grant intended to help low-income Vermont students realize they can go to college. By all indications, the 47-year-old Talent Search program that Vermont Student Assistance Corporation administers is as worthy as they come.

BHS senior KUJTIM “QUEET” HASHANI stepped up to the microphone to say that the program, which assisted his older brother, was now helping him scout for colleges and prepare for the SAT exam.

Congress actually approved funding for the grant last December as part of the omnibus appropriations bill, and VSAC, one of 458 grant recipients across the country, learned about its share in August. Seven weeks before Election Day, Leahy went to BHS to take credit for bringing home the bacon in front of news crews without ever having to hint that, by they way, he’s running for reelection.

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resting the hill at the top of Main Street, visitors to Burlington come upon the University of Vermont’s manicured green and the fine old buildings lining its eastern edge. Dead ahead, Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks present a beckoning vista. Proceeding toward downtown, motorists and pedestrians pass wellpreserved mansions on both sides of the city’s main artery. And then, on the threshold of Burlington’s commercial center, they encounter what officials refer to as the Welcome Block.

Which is not welcoming at all.

Opposite a gas station and convenience store is a 42-space parking lot, a derelict motel and the dilapidated and soon-to-be-shuttered Memorial Auditorium.

Taggers have already sprayed tombstone inscriptions on Memorial, the 89-year-old city-owned civic center that once rang with cheers during Champlain College basketball games, wrestling matches and concerts by stars from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley. Today, anyone entering the erstwhile entertainment center hears only the sounds of silence.

Burlington City Arts’ pottery studio remains in operation on the ground floor, but, like the 242 Main teen club and the Generator maker space, it must be gone by year’s end. Structural deficiencies have been neglected for so long that the brick building is now officially unusable.

Signs of decay are everywhere: Cracks fracture stairways; water stains blotch the ceiling above the basketball court; weeds sprout on the steps of a Main Street entryway blocked with plywood.

In the South Union Street lobby, crowds no longer read names off the 10 bronze plaques that list scores of Burlingtonians who died in foreign wars. For many of those vets, Memorial Auditorium was the Queen City venue, long before the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Higher Ground or ArtsRiot existed.

Today it’s “a multipurpose building with no purpose,” lamented Jesse Bridges, director of the city’s Parks, Recreation & Waterfront, which manages Memorial.

His assessment leads cynics to wonder: Could Memorial become the next Moran Plant, the city’s former

DEVELOPMENT electric generating station, which sits largely moribund and graffiti-covered on the Burlington waterfront 30 years after it shut down?

City officials insist that scenario will never come to pass.

“There is no way this council lets Memorial or the entire Welcome Block continue to be underutilized,” declared City Council President Jane Knodell (P-Central District). “There’s no way I see Memorial sitting abandoned for years and years.”

Mayor Miro Weinberger is equally adamant that the civic auditorium will not become Moran on Main Street.

“Moran has a unique set of challenges,” he said. “It’s geographically isolated, has significant environmental problems and has constitutional issues regarding the relatively limited number of uses for that building on filled land. Memorial doesn’t face any of those obstacles.”

By early next year, the Democratic mayor vowed last week, he will present the Burlington City Council with a plan for the future of Memorial Auditorium.

Last year, the Weinberger administration hired Vergennes-based real estate planner Jeffrey Glassberg to study options for the site and prepare a request for proposals to rebuild or replace Memorial Auditorium. He wound up in talks with UVM, which has been weighing the possibility of building a $60 million, 4,500-seat arena on the entire stretch of the Welcome Block that fronts

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Main Street between South Winooski Avenue and South Union Street. The university is also considering South Burlington, with its ample acreage for parking, as the site for the envisioned hockey and basketball arena. Alternately, said Tom Gustafson, a UVM vice president, the school could choose to upgrade

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and expand its existing Gutterson Field House and Patrick Gymnasium.

Glassberg is performing due diligence on the UVM arena plan until November, at which point the city will issue the long-awaited request for proposals. The hope is that it will attract private development or financing partners for either the arena or some alternate plan.

Bridges assured, “If the arena doesn’t pan out, if the RFP doesn’t pan out, we’ll find a way to do renovations.”

But simply bringing Memorial up to code — that is, making it safe to be inside the place — would cost an estimated $4 million. The price of modernizing it to accommodate shows in the 2020s and beyond runs as high as $17 million.

The city isn’t keen on making such outlays on its own, which leads the mayor and other officials to emphasize the need for a public-private partnership in regard to any future use of the building, or its footprint. That includes a UVM arena. “There’s no example in the country of a facility like that paying for itself,” Weinberger said. “The arena is not going to happen with only the city and the university making significant investments or capital reinvestments in that site.”

A $4 million Memorial makeover — if the money to do so were somehow to be found — doesn’t appeal to independent Councilor Adam Roof, who represents Ward 8, where the building is located.

“I’m not sure I see the point of spending a lot to repair it when there would have to be more repairs in 20, maybe 30 years,” Roof said.

Burlington’s history of grassroots resistance to major redevelopments suggests that a teardown might not be popular, either. “People would go crazy,” predicted Alan Abair, who managed Memorial from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Although the building does not have protected historic status, local ordinances would require public hearings in the case of proposed demolition, said Noelle MacKay, director of the city’s Community and Economic Development Office.

Abair argues that a fixed-up Memorial Auditorium could be a civic

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By 1991, however, city officials knew the building needed substantial repairs.

Martha Keenan, capital improvement program manager at the Department of Public Works, told the city council last year that a rehab priority list prepared by an architect in 1991 included many problems that lo ca l, f re s h , o rig in a l remained unaddressed a quarter century later.

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That same year, more than 50 percent of Burlington voters said yes to a ballot item that would have authorized the city to borrow up to $8 million to repair Memorial Auditorium.

But the initiative required a two-thirds majority, so it failed.

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asset for many years to come. “There’s nothing wrong with its basic construction,” he said, likening the auditorium to the mills of Winooski that still stand, in repurposed forms, more than a century and a half after they were built.

Rehabbing the building is “absolutely worth it,” in Abair’s estimation. “It was built to honor vets,” he pointed out.

Who’s to blame for the sorry state of a building that Burlington’s then-mayor C.H. Beecher extolled in 1928 as “the largest and best-equipped auditorium in New England north of Springfield, Mass.”?

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oug Hoffer keeps a running list of every job he’s ever had. The document has columns for position, employer, location and dates. It’s ordered chronologically, beginning with the summer of ’64, when Hoffer, then 12 years old, caddied at a Connecticut golf course.

Asked about the list, Hoffer, 65, responded half-seriously: “Do you really think other people don’t do that?”

Entry No. 59 is the post Hoffer has held since January 2013: Vermont state auditor. For a man known for fastidious record keeping and a zealous devotion to data, the elected role is a dream job.

But he has to run for it every two years, and this November the Progressive Democrat has an opponent.

Dan Feliciano, who received 4.4 percent of the vote in the 2014 gubernatorial race as a Libertarian, is challenging Hoffer — as a Republican. The business efficiency consultant, who has been working in Mexico, said he plans to start campaigning in earnest next week.

What are they competing for? Armed with a $3.7 million budget, a staff of 14 and subpoena power, the Vermont state auditor acts as a watchdog of state government, preventing waste, fraud and abuse, and ensuring that taxpayer money is spent wisely. Hoffer likes to point out that the office is “truly independent,” beholden only to the Vermont citizenry.

However, he has no authority to actually compel state officials to follow the recommendations in his audits.

As illustrated by his job list, Hoffer came to the office via an unconventional path. A high school dropout, he worked the counter at McDonald’s, delivered flowers and served as the maître d’ at the famed Alice’s Restaurant in Massachusetts — not to mention several dozen other jobs — before enrolling at Williams College at age 30. He spent more time with his professors than his peers, Hoffer recalled.

After graduating with a political science degree, he went to University at Buffalo School of Law. Rather than take the bar, he applied for just one job and got it: policy analyst at the Community and Economic Development Office in Burlington, under then-mayor Bernie Sanders. Hoffer, who says he’s always been drawn to public policy, was

POLITICS impressed with CEDO’s progressive approach to economic development, which emphasized local ownership and affordable housing — as opposed to what he called “traditional tax-credit crap.”

After five years, he became a self-employed policy analyst whose clients included then-state auditor Ed Flanagan, for whom he led a high-profile review that cast doubt on the effectiveness of the state’s Economic Advancement Tax Incentives program. The Peace & Justice Center commissioned him to quantify the cost of living, and working, in Vermont, and his efforts produced the state’s first job gap study — a document that has stood up to years of scrutiny. He also did pro bono analyses for Vermont lawmakers, often on economic development programs.

Longtime acquaintances aren’t surprised Hoffer ended up in the auditor’s office. “As the Catholics would say, this is his calling,” said Burlington attorney John Franco, who met Hoffer during the late 1980s when they both worked in city hall.

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willing to pursue problems even if they conflict with his political party, make the current administration look bad or enrage powerful business interests.

His office has carried out two audits of the state’s infamously beleaguered health care exchange, Vermont Health Connect.

Last year, after investigating Vermont’s long-standing leases to ski resorts, he concluded the state was getting a raw deal. The idea of renegotiating the leases died swiftly after an outcry from resort owners and lawmakers representing ski towns.

But much of Hoffer’s time has been spent on lower-profile pursuits, analyzing the “nuts and bolts” of government programs. In one audit, his office found that 41 percent of the contracts signed by five agencies and departments during 2015 were awarded without competition, despite state guidelines that no-bid contracts be used only in “extraordinary circumstances.”

The state’s approach hasn’t changed dramatically, according to Hoffer, but

he noted that the audit “certainly got people’s attention.”

During an audit of cellphone plans for state employees, his office discovered that four departments and agencies were paying for more than 5 million unused minutes.

“What does that mean? It means that the decisions about who was going to get a phone and the decisions about which types of plans weren’t optimal — to be charitable,” Hoffer said in his deep baritone, speaking rapidly yet eloquently. He’s also vocal online, where he’s “a bit of a keyboard warrior,” as Franco phrased it. The auditor has been known to comment on several political blogs and the news site VTDigger.org.

Discussion gets heated. “It’s fun. It’s a hobby,” Hoffer explained. “Ninety-nine percent of the things I post are just data, and I hope that improves the discourse.

Interestingly, many people vote thumbsdown on facts,” he added.

Another Hoffer audit found that the Department of Corrections was paying for excess prescription drugs instead of returning them to pharmacies for

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monitoring the financial audits that the private firm KPMG performs for the state.

“If you see a 30-page report, there’s probably 400 pages of documentation,” Hoffer said. “I have tremendous confidence in everything we say.”

How much difference does any of it make? In 2014, one year after auditing the sex-offender registry, the liquor control system and designated agencies, 69 percent of his office’s recommendations had been partially or fully implemented, according to the auditor’s 2015 performance report. The goal is 50 percent after one year and 75 percent after three years.

After that, Hoffer admits, his office doesn’t have the resources to keep checking.

When a department makes a change as a result of his recommendation, Hoffer said he asks for proof.

“Verbal assurances are not sufficient,” he added in a follow-up email.

One of Hoffer’s central campaign promises doesn’t lend itself to a data-driven analysis. While campaigning in 2012, he criticized his predecessor, Tom Salmon, for politicizing the office and pledged to take a nonpartisan approach.

Less liberal lawmakers say he’s succeeding.

“Sometimes I have to remind myself that he is really progressive politically,” said Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington.)

Rep. Heidi Scheuermann (R-Stowe) clashed with Hoffer last year over the ski resort issue. But when asked about him last Wednesday, she said, “I think Doug has done a good job as auditor, frankly.” She went on, “I have obviously on occasion disagreed with some of his conclusions … But the audits themselves are good.”

Hoffer has come down hard on several of the state’s economic development programs, including the Vermont Employment Growth Incentives and the Vermont Training Program, faulting them for being predicated on unproven claims and lacking adequate data to demonstrate their value. “I do have a difference of philosophy with him on economic development,” said Sen. Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland) who chairs

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reimbursements. The department changed its procedure as a result of the finding and recouped $450,000 for returned medications in the first year and a half after the audit.

Former corrections commissioner Andy Pallito has been on the receiving end of a few other examples of Hoffer’s work: One highlighted inaccurate information in the state’s sex-offender registry; another found lack of oversight in the transitional housing program for released inmates.

Pallito said some of the findings in the transitional housing audit took him by surprise. “All the information I was receiving at the top was, ‘Things are going well,’” Pallito said.

Afterward, “We put more resources into oversight and started doing more frequent site visits.”

As a result of the sexoffender registry report, the department “changed completely” how it shared information, said Pallito, who now heads up the Department of Finance & Management.

“I find him to be completely fair, and I think he sticks to the facts,” Pallito said of Hoffer.

Not all of the auditor’s work has been welcomed with open arms. During a review of the tax department’s efforts to collect delinquent income taxes, Hoffer concluded that the department didn’t have enough data to gauge how effective its collection methods were.

In her written response to the audit, Department of Taxes Commissioner Mary Peterson called it a “snapshot from the rearview mirror.” She emphasized that her staff were in the midst of transition to a new IT system that “solves the well-known problems … that the audit enumerated.”

Time hasn’t altered Peterson’s opinion. In an email last week, she wrote, “The audit was a serious distraction for our staff at a critical time in implementing our modern IT system, VTax.” Not surprisingly, Hoffer has been collecting data to assess his own work, too.

In the nearly four years since he took office, Hoffer and his staff have done 19 performance audits, plus a number of special investigations, in addition to

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responsible for the state of Memorial.

“Prior administrations, all made up of hardworking people, faced large sets of challenges that needed to be managed and juggled,” Weinberger said. His own administration has almost finished clearing obstacles that held up progress on capital needs, Weinberger added. Those include the stabilization of Burlington Telecom, reform of the city’s pension plan and infrastructure improvements on the northern waterfront.

Memorial Auditorium, he said, “is coming into focus as one of my top priorities.”

Hartnett agreed that Team Weinberger is likely to move the ball forward. “The mayor takes a lot of knocks for his building projects, but Burlington is now really on the ‘go’ button,” the councilor said. “We’re getting a lot of stuff done.”

So will Memorial be renovated or redeveloped within the next five years, ensuring it doesn’t become the next Moran?

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Unilever to Buy Seventh Generation The same multinational company that purchased Ben & Jer y’s back in 2001 is scooping up another Vermont-based company.

Unilever announced plans Monday to purchase Burlingtonbased Seventh Generation for an undisclosed sum.

Unilever North America president Kees Kruythoff hailed the acquisition of Seventh Generation — which makes Earth-friendly laundry soap, toilet paper, dishwashing detergent and personal care products — as beneficial for both companies.

Seventh Generation’s corporate headquarters is located on Lake Street in Burlington. The company was founded nearly 30 years ago with the promise of “caring today for seven generations of tomorrows.”

The product line is ad ertised as plant-based and nontoxic.

Even the tampons Seventh Generation sells are labeled organic.

The company has 150 empl yees, including 110 in Vermont, Seventh Generation spokeswoman Brandi Thomas told Seven Days. There are no plans to m ve the Vermont employees, she said, and the company hopes the sale helps grow its presence in the state.

Seventh Generation CEO John Replogle, a former Unilever exec, said in a press release that the purchase would serve profits, people and the planet.

“Working together, we are confident we can ha e a positive impact on the health of billions of people around the world, truly fulfi ling our mission of nurturing the next seven generations while transforming global commerce,” he said.

Unilever, a Dutch-British conglomerate, owns many wellknown brands, including Lipton, Dove, Vaseline and Suave.

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Burlington to Vote on Capital Bonds, Bike Path Question Queen City residents will have a say at the polls this November on several big-ticket items.

At its Monday night meeting, the Burlington City Council unanimously approved Mayor Miro Weinberger’s proposal to put a $27.5 million bond for capital upgrades on the ballot. Among the repairs it would pay for: sidewalk and street upgrades, bike path improvements, and several new fire engines.

At the same meeting, the council approved an $8.4 million bond to replace aging water pipes. Forty percent of Burlington’s water mains are more than 75 years old, according to the administration.

The water bond needs a simple majori y to pass, while the capital bond requires approval from two-thirds of voters.

In addition to the bonds, the council also approved the mayor’s broader $50 million, 10-year capital plan, which includes the two bonds on November’s ballot.

Earlier Monday, longtime bike path advocate Rick Sharp succeeded in getting an item on the ballot by way of a petition.

Voters will be asked: “Should the Mayor of Burlington and the City Council be advised to relocate the Burlington Bicycle Path to the west side of the railroad tracks between College and King streets even if that means utilizing the public trust doctrine or eminent domain to accomplish this task?”

The rerouted bike path Sharp proposes would a low users to twice avoid crossing the railroad tracks — but it would pass through Lake Champlain Transportation property. According to operations manager Heather Stewart, the company depends on that strip of land to access their ferries and make deliveries when Lake Champlain floods.

Sharp is adamant. “To me, it’s like finishing the last piece of the puzzle,” he said of the proposed relocation.

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Artwork Mocks City Officials for ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’ An unknown artist created a series of four satirical postcards using old Kool-Aid ads to mock Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and city councilors who are in favor of a zoning amendment that will allow developer Don Sinex to build up to 14 stories high in downtown.

“An appreciative City Council says … ‘Mayor knows best,’” reads the riff on a vintage advertisement. The original shows a family paying tribute to Mom, whose head in the edited version has been replaced by Weinberger’s. It reads: “He keeps Kool-Aid in the ice box by the pitcher full — and they’re drinking it!”

The altered ads were distributed at the South End A t Hop and on the Stop the 14-Story Mall group’s Facebook page. One post came the day before the council passed by a 7-4 vote the amendment that will allow the Burlington Town Center redevelopment to go forward. A public hearing and final ote on the proposal is scheduled for September 29.

The a tistic expression didn’t sit well with City Councilor Joan Shannon, who decried on Facebook the “baseless ridicule” of “people who step up to serve the City.”

Shannon, who supported the proposal at last week’s meeting, is portrayed in one of the ads as a child, a bow in her hair, raising a glass of Kool-Aid toward “Mother” — Weinberger.

Weinberger was not a fan of the artwork. “I believe strongly in democratic debate,” he said in an email to Seven Days. “I don’t believe that the debate should devolve into misinformation and offensive personal attacks.”

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that committee in the Senate. But, he added, “I respect him a great deal.”

Auditing Vermont Health Connect at a time when the Democratic administration was already getting pummeled for its poor rollout won him respect across the aisle. Asked if Hoffer has gone easy on the Democratic administration, Pallito responded emphatically: “Noooo.”

Notably, the auditor raised questions about the state’s participation in the federal EB-5 program in 2012, long before it erupted in scandal. At the time, he suggested that oversight of the program was insufficient and told Seven Days, “I don’t want to hear how great the program is until you can demonstrate it’s creating good jobs.”

Has studying the innards of state government made him cynical? Hoffer insists it hasn’t: “Am I frustrated that it’s not more efficient and effective? Of course. But we’re trying.”

Two terms in, he’s still brimming with audit ideas. He recently tallied up how much the state spends on public safety across a number of departments. The total: $376 million dollars. “I’m not saying it’s a bad thing,” Hoffer said. But he plans to examine whether the spending corresponds with the state’s crime trends.

He’s also committed to an audit of 10 capital projects, including the psychiatric hospital in Middlesex. “It’s a big state government,” he said. “We’ve only scratched the surface.” m Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com

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After a long illness, Docie Eileen Falcone Woodard died on August 18, 2016, surrounded by her family. She was born in Shaoyang, China, in 1948. Her twin, Ah-li, preceded her in birth by 20 minutes. Whenever Ah-li claimed to be older, Docie would point out that she, Docie, was bigger since she was three inches taller.° Her family relocated to Hartford, Conn., when Docie was a baby, and spent summers in East Randolph, Vt. She graduated from Weaver High School (Hartford) and Goddard College (Plainfield, Vt.). She married Charles Woodard in 1968 and settled in Calais, Vt., where she raised two children. She earned an MSW from Adelphi University in 1981 and became a well-respected therapist and fearless advocate for children and women who

were victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. ˛ rough her work, she met her future wife, Linda Beal, who swept her off her feet by asking her to write a grant with her. She and Linda relocated to Seattle in 1990, where Docie ran a successful psychotherapy practice for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. ˛ ey moved back to Burlington in 2006 to be closer to grandchildren.° Docie had an artistic eye. She and Linda were award-winning gardeners who created beautiful flower and vegetable gardens overlooked by hand-built cottages. She knit amazing sweaters for family and friends, carrying on conversations as she knit the intricate patterns. When her kids were little, she embroidered animals and flowers on their clothes. For grandchildren, she dyed shirts and added prints of plants and animals on the front. Over the years she painted on canvas board and stools and wrote creative nonfiction. She left us with many beautiful creations with which to remember her.

Docie is survived by Linda, her wife of 27 years, a son Nat Woodard (Gretchen Verplanck), daughter Sarah Woodard (Liam Flynn), mother Martha Falcone, sisters Ah-li Monahan (Lois Burnett), Naomi Winterfalcon (Madeleine), brother Paul Falcone, and grandchildren Adele, Lila, Mallory, and Asher.

She was predeceased by her sister, Hsiaoti Falcone. We are so grateful to Bayada Nursing for their heartfelt and excellent care in the last months of her life. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Pride Center of Vermont. An open house in Docie’s memory will be held°October 29, 2016, from 3 to 5 p.m.°at 39 Front Street in Burlington, Vermont.°

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Bruce Butterfield, 67, a longtime resident of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, died on September 5, 2016.° Bruce was born on June 18, 1949, in Illinois and grew up in New Jersey. He moved to Burlington in the late 1960s, graduated from UVM in 1973 and made Vermont his home.

Bruce was deeply committed to living simply and treading lightly on the planet. He was a free thinker who valued self-sufficiency, independence and integrity.

Long before community gardening became a trend, Bruce worked closely with Tommy ˛ ompson and the Burlingtonbased nonprofit Gardens for All, later known

as National Gardening Association (NGA).

In that role, he created more than 1,000 community gardening plots in Burlington. ˛ anks to Bruce, Burlington still has more community gardens per capita than any other city in the country.° Bruce continued working with Gardens for All, eventually being named market research director. In that role, he became a nationally known and respected name in the gardening industry. For 35 consecutive years, he produced the National Gardening Survey, a comprehensive study of consumer gardening practices, trends and product sales. ˛ is gave Bruce a unique understanding of who gardeners are, what they need and want, why they buy the products they do, where they shop, how gardening trends have changed, and where they are headed. Many depended upon his knowledge, insight and experience.

At his home in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Bruce loved planning and managing his 11 acres of land. He cut his own firewood and enjoyed sugaring with friends and neighbors. He cut and milled the wood used to construct his home and barn, and filled the surrounding landscape with edible and ornamental shrubs and trees.

Bruce’s gruff exterior belied his sharp intelligence, quick wit and passion for knowledge. Like a man from earlier times, he was honest, hardworking and self-effacing, with a gentle demeanor and kind spirit, and was always ready to help someone in need. He will also be remembered for his generosity to people and causes.

Bruce would want to acknowledge the friendship of his neighbors: Judy Jacobs; Chris Boyle; and Clifford, Karen, Eric, Stuart and the LaPoint family.

Bruce is survived by his sister, Kay Butterfield, and was predeceased by his brother, Dean Butterfield.

Memorial donations may be made to KidsGardening.org to honor Bruce’s

commitment to gardening as a way to improve the planet. An NGA initiative started in 1982, KidsGardening.org has recently become an independent nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for children to learn through the garden and is located at 132 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT 05401.

A memorial event is being planned at a later date.

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infrastructure of galleries and museums, which is the best thing about being here. But New York From left to right: “Stop Ball (23rd Street)” and is also very expensive. It’s “T&S Self Storage Warehouse First Month Free Ball” by Lars Fisk getting harder and harder for people to come here and make it as artists.” walls of three subway stations and a Fisk advised: “If you’re going to go for self-storage warehouse — all of them conit and try to make your way as an artist, verted into smaller-scale spherical forms. it’s important that you learn to suppress In dimensions and sales price, the works your standard of living. range from marble-size pencils (which go “I feel very fortunate to do what I do,” for $8,000) to a 15-foot-diameter object he continued. “And I’m only able to do that almost touches the ceiling in the galit here. Actually, though, I was doing it lery’s tallest room — that will cost a buyer in Burlington, too, but I was living like a $250,000. This looming piece, which may homeless man there.” startle viewers, has a black surface with That’s not to imply that Fisk is a few intersecting white lines and some luxuriating in a Park Avenue penthouse circular and oblong orange-and-gray these days. His home consists of four protrusions. shipping containers he’s stacked two What can it be? by two in a vacant lot in the Red Hook A few moments of contemplation, section of Brooklyn. This postindustrial along with prior exposure to Fisk’s wry urban homestead had previously been sensibility, will reveal “Lot Ball” as a brilsituated next to a parking lot in Astoria, a liantly wacky take on, yes, a parking lot. neighborhood in Queens that hosts both And not just any stretch of asphalt. This a Costco warehouse and the Socrates astonishing sphere is based on the Costco Sculpture Park. Fisk worked for seven parking lot that Fisk looked at every day years as facilities and studio manager from his container home in Queens. “I of the outdoor art site that took root in made it large to suggest that parking lots East River landfill. From his containers, are taking over,” he said. he could take in a drop-dead view of the It took Fisk months to make “Lot Manhattan skyline.

Ball” and several weeks to complete the Its nighttime glitter might be the con- smaller pieces seen at the Chelsea gallery. summate expression of New York’s sheen “All the material has to be manipuin the 21st century. Look beyond the lated, and some of the materials are more bright lights and the big money, however, problematic than others,” Fisk noted. He and it’s easy to see the funk that persists had to bend granite, for example, to shape in outer-borough neighborhoods such as one of the pieces. “Lot Ball” consists of Astoria and Red Hook. And it’s the every- polystyrene covered with asphalt. day sights of that unsung side of Gotham Several Vermonters traveled to New that Fisk celebrates in his sculpture. At York to attend the September 8 opening Marlborough Chelsea, he explained, of “Mr. Softee.” Locals can see samples “I’m exploring the iconography of the of Fisk’s work much closer to home, too. cityscape.”

“Train Ball” is housed, aptly, in the track“Mr. Softee” opens with a lovable ren- level lobby of Union Station in Burlington, dition of one of the soft-serve ice-cream while “Barn Ball” brings a rustic touch to trucks that ply the city’s downscale the admissions area of UVM’s Fleming streets. Fisk’s balled-up version, the size Museum of Art. of an overinflated party balloon, doesn’t Whether viewed in the Big Apple play the grating jingle familiar to genera- or the Queen City, Fisk’s works impart tions of New Yorkers, but it is a faithful, a well-rounded understanding of art’s if oddly shaped, reproduction in all other power to defamiliarize that which is farespects. The piece is emblazoned with miliar. the red-script Mr. Softee logo and images of some of the treats ostensibly on offer; Contact: kelley@sevendaysvt.com its windshield is even equipped with INFO wiper blades.

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transpositions are on display at the venue.

Pascal Spengemann, another New York art-world luminary with strong Vermont connections, has been director there for the past four years.

Spengemann, also 45, has been friends with Fisk, who was raised in Norwich, since their high school years in Hanover, N.H. They later shared living space in Burlington’s South End. Serendipitously, the apartment was adjacent to DIONYSIAN PRODUCTIONS, Phish’s management company. Spengemann, who holds an art history degree from the University of New Hampshire, served as curator of Church Street’s Firehouse Gallery (now the BCA CENTER) from 1995 to 2004.

Taking a break from installing “Mr. Softee” in the ground-floor space on West 25th Street, the two buds reminisced about their lives in Vermont. They jointly embarked on a magical memory tour back to the Daily Planet, where, 20 years ago, Fisk and Spengemann hung out and got to know established Burlington artists including LANCE RICHBOURG, BARBARA ZUCKER and Michael Oatman (now an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.). The old hands spun what Spengemann referred to as “war stories” about their careers and the local art scene.

“They passed on so much information to us,” Spengemann testified. “Their experiences were of great interest to us.”

Fisk added: “It was a whole different kind of education. We learned things you don’t learn in college.”

The two also spoke about how Burlington compares to New York as a place for artists to create and for curators to orchestrate and to nurture.

Isn’t it almost impossible, the duo was asked, for someone to make a living as an artist in Vermont?

“It’s almost impossible to support yourself as an artist anywhere,” Spengemann replied.

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sculptor born and bred in Vermont is soaring to star status in the Manhattan art world.

The New York Times recently attested to — and assisted — his ascent with a profile and online slide show of some of his pieces, which he makes and stores in his quirky home on a weedy lot in Brooklyn.

LARS FISK, 45, traces his success to his native state. Two years after graduating from the University of Vermont in 1993, he became Seven Days’ first art director.

He has long been associated with PHISH as a designer of sets and spectacles for the jam band’s concerts. And, perhaps most portentously, it was during a drive along Interstate 89 that Fisk was struck with the inspiration for making the spherical sculptures that have become his signature motif.

“It happened in 1996 as highway hypnosis,” Fisk recalled. “I started seeing the road kind of roll up into the horizon.

It looked to me like a big ball.” He soon began making rounded pieces that “turn landscape into objects, places into things.”

Fisk offered that origins story in an interview earlier this month at Marlborough Chelsea, the Manhattan gallery that’s hosting his show, titled “Mr. Softee.” About a dozen of his amusing and sometimes amazing

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expectations of perfect bodies to a need to numb other personal problems or repress childhood trauma or abuse. A common thread is that the eating disorder provided a sense of empowerment.

It was one aspect of life that could be controlled — until the disease began to take over.

“My stomach being empty made me feel very in control,” says one woman in the film.

Another young woman, who grew up with an alcoholic father, puts it this way:

“I couldn’t make him reliable, but my eating disorder was reliable.”

Interspersed with the interviews are photos and home-movie clips that show the before-and-after effects of anorexia and bulimia. Some of the women grew emaciated to the point of being unrecognizable.

O’Brien includes a single interview with a teenage boy, whose battle with anorexia led him to attempt suicide by riding his bike into the wilderness in the dead of winter. The film would have benefited from more firsthand male voices on the topic, but O’Brien says it was difficult to find others willing to share their stories. Two boys who were interested in talking about their eating disorders, she notes, ultimately declined to appear on camera.

“I think it’s 10 times harder talking about it from a boy’s or young man’s point of view,” O’Brien says. “It is completely taboo to talk about it, and there’s a lot of shame around it.”

All of Me addresses the financial burden an eating disorder can place on a family, plus the cycle of relapses and

hospitalization that can occur when insurance companies stop covering treatment and a patient is released prematurely. A mother recalls being told that a particular treatment center would cost her $1,500 a day; a couple says they racked up more than $150,000 in bills related to treatment for their daughter.

“A lot of the way that insurance determines release times for people from intensive programs is based on weight gain for anorexia or, for bulimia, abatement of purging,” explains BREE GREENBERG-BENJAMIN, founder and director of the Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, in the film. “The problem is, that’s just scratching the surface of treatment.”

According to data from the National Eating Disorders Association that are cited in the movie, only 10 percent of the 30 million Americans who suffer from eating disorders will receive treatment.

Of those people, only 35 percent are seen by someone qualified to treat them.

Despite those bleak facts, the overall message of the film is one of hope. Many of the interviewees are clients at VTCIT, which integrates yoga and meditation into traditional therapy techniques for the treatment of eating disorders. And the sight of the many healthy-looking people in the film, who now feel comfortable enough to discuss their disease, should encourage those still struggling in silence.

O’Brien says she believes the issues addressed in All of Me will resonate with anyone who has wrestled with low self-esteem or body insecurities, regardless of their relationship with food.

“I hope what the film does is, it opens up a much larger discussion about just food in general, body image, our ways of dealing with our depression and our anxiety, and things in our lives that are difficult,” she says, “and what tools we use to get through that.”

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hen BESS O’BRIEN was in the midst of a statewide tour of her 2013 film The Hungry Heart, a documentary about Vermont’s opioid addiction crisis, she met a man named Norm, whose daughter had struggled with eating disorders for years. He suggested the documentarian make a film on that topic.

Nearly three years and many interviews later, All of Me premiered on September 17 in Burlington. O’Brien’s new doc is a frank look at individuals and families dealing with the devastating effects of anorexia and bulimia.

“I felt that this story needs to be told,” says Norm, who isn’t identified in the film and didn’t want his last name used in this article, out of respect for his daughter’s privacy. “I’ve become fairly passionate about this issue … because we went through hell and back.”

While Norm’s daughter is now doing well, he still vividly recalls the depths of that “hell,” including watching her resort to self-harm as her weight dipped into double digits. At one point, Norm himself became suicidal from the strain and was prescribed medication. One day, he forgot to lock it up; his daughter swallowed a handful of pills and barely survived.

O’Brien sees similarities between the diseases examined in The Hungry Heart and those in her latest film. The key difference, she notes, is that people suffering from drug or alcohol addiction can try to avoid the substances, but food is necessary to sustain life.

“As far as recovery goes, the first thing you do, if you’re addicted to heroin or opiates or alcohol, is, you get rid of the substance,” O’Brien says. “With food, you have to eat, and so food is continually around you.”

All of Me features interviews with grown women and teenagers at various stages of recovery, as well as with parents grappling with the delicate complexities of the recovery process. The reasons the women cite for developing eating disorders vary, from societal pressures and media-perpetuated

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MARY ZOMPETTI: As I began working in the office at Memorial this summer, I started to notice the crumbling beauty of the space, from the creaking wooden chairs in the auditorium to the peeling teal paint in the hallways to the way the light moves through the space.

Photographing helps me see, notice and understand space differently and more intimately. There are many, many details I never would have noticed if I wasn’t making photographs.

SD: Are you working in digital, film or both?

MZ: Right now, this is solely an Instagram project — all of the images are taken with my iPhone and are edited and posted in the moment. [It’s] a different way of working for me. It’s been a great way to make the images immediately available and to gather community feedback. The project seems to be gaining momentum and it may evolve into a large-format film series in the coming months. But, for now, I am enjoying the immediacy of this project as a counter to the rest of my studio practice.

is a newcomer Burlington’s casualties of war, chalkto Memorial Auditorium, boards bearing chicken-scratch musibut the photographer is al- cal notations in the green rooms behind ready developing an unusual the stage. relationship with the old building.

Zompetti finds unexpected beauty The Grand Isle resident has directed in the aging structure, and she has BURLINGTON CITY ARTS’ Community an eye for abstraction: One image Darkroom and Digital Media Lab for 12 features paint peelyears from a basement ing from a wall. But office in the BCA CENTER her documenting days on Church Street. But are numbered. BCA’s this summer she reclay and print studios located to Memorial and administrative of— just a few months fices, along with the before its tenants will Burlington Generator have to vacate the 1927 maker space and the building due to strucyouth club 242 Main, tural issues. will move out by the All the more reason end of the year. to start taking pictures.

Generator is reloMARY ZOMPET T I Zompetti is known cating to a Sears Lane for her site-specific space leased from photographic projChamplain College. ects and installations. For Memorial BCA’s classrooms and offices will Auditorium, she has been posting move into new quarters in the images on Instagram that showcase former Farrell Vending at 405 the building’s worn features: wooden Pine Street. (Future plans for folding chairs lining the auditorium’s 242 Main are still evolving.)

Mary Zompetti balconies, bronze plaques that honor Until she has to leave, too, ARY ZOMPETTI

THERE ARE MANY, MANY DETAILS I NEVER WOULD HAVE NOTICED IF I WASN’T MAKING PHOTOGRAPHS.

SD: What has been the reaction to these photographs?

MZ: People often share their specific memories of Memorial when I post, and I enjoy hearing people’s stories.

There is a collective sense of nostalgia for Memorial in our community, and I think everyone is waiting to see what will become of the building.

SD: What’s it like, as a photographer, to have people react so strongly to your images on social media?

MZ: As an artist, it’s great to have people react positively to the work — I didn’t expect this project to gain such traction, and I’m happy that the images are meaningful to people.

SD: What are your thoughts on leaving? How do you feel about the new space?

MZ: I’ve definitely developed an attachment to both Memorial and the photo labs I’ve managed at the BCA Center. Our studio programs have evolved and served many people over time, and many professional and personal relationships have grown and thrived in those spaces. I see this move as a positive next step in our evolution.

As for the new space, I am very excited about it. It’s been a fun challenge to design and plan a new darkroom and digital lab that will better serve the evolving needs in our community.

It’s also exciting to know that those new labs will be just down the hall from all of the other BCA studios.

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Zompetti plans to keep memorializing Memorial. Seven Days interviewed the artist about her project.

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lines its cozy interior. Leonard estimated the project involved more than 500 hours of sewing.

It mattered to him to craft a warm setting in which to address such a heavy topic as the future of the planet. “I knew what I wanted was the real-world equivalent of [the scene in] The Matrix when Neo goes into the kitchen and there’s the Oracle,” Leonard said. “She’s baking cookies, and she tells Neo things that he doesn’t want to hear but that he needs to hear.”

Tarot readings offer “a form of very personalized, contemplative storytelling,” Leonard said. His practice as a reader begins with helping visitors to “take things like anxiety and nebulous concern” and formulate coherent,

multivalent questions, “as opposed to simple binary questions that disempower people.”

The tarot decks Leonard uses are not altered, but he has formulated a customized “spread” — a guiding format for reading the cards. Court cards, for example, may be interpreted as representative of a particular ecological population such as an endangered species.

Most of the questions Leonard addresses from “Tent” guests fall into one of four broad categories, he said, probing for narrative, vocational, ethical or spiritual insights. People ask about timelines, he said, usually in the 20-to-50-year range.

Some ask for guidance about work, such as a man who operates a permaculture business. Leonard estimated that a dozen

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But what about diviners? Ask Brooklyn-based contemporary artist James Leonard. This Thursday, September 22, he’s bringing his “Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies” to Burlington’s Peace & Justice Center, where he invites visitors to receive free climate-change-related tarot readings.

Phenology is the study of climate patterns and natural phenomena. The tarot is a deck of cards used since medieval times for games or, more recently, for divination by practiced “readers.” As for Leonard’s handcrafted tent, he bills it on his website as “a cross between a postapocalyptic wigwam and a children’s blanket fort.”

His one-day performance installation in the Queen City marks the project’s 26th and penultimate stop on a summerlong tour that has taken Leonard from the mid-Atlantic region to New York State to northern New England. What inspired it?

“I’ve always been divinatory-curious,” Leonard said in a phone interview, then explained that “Tent” grew out of his earlier work based on coming to terms with mortality. Leonard began work on the tent in February 2015 as an artist-inresidence at the Boston Center for the Arts. The exterior of the intimately sized structure is made of oiled marine canvas; a textural rainbow of recycled clothes

or so millennial women have expressed ethical concerns about whether to have children.

While researching global divinatory traditions, Leonard said, he found that such practices in American culture have been marginalized as “curiosity and a form of entertainment.” But divinatory practices can be “as much about contemplation as about predicting the future,” he asserted.

Emotional catharsis can result from the readings, too. “It’s not uncommon for me to have people cry in the tent,” Leonard said. At least four people in Butler, Pa. — a community deeply affected by fracking — “just burst into tears,” he noted. “That’s how raw the community was.”

Many people in multiple locations “were asking about now,” Leonard continued, “because they’re feeling pain connected to our energy policy right now, in their community.”

Leonard counts himself as part of what he called “a huge stampede, almost, to social-practice art.” Whether artists affiliate themselves with racial, economic or climate justice, he said, “We’re grasping for agency, and it’s showing up in our work.” During his “Tent” project, he’s found inspiration in reading about early American abolitionists and suffragists who also toured the country to espouse their causes.

“I need to be engaging people,” Leonard said. “I can’t wait for the art world to find me.” m

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Dear Cecil,

We’ve all seen the ads where pets experience visible joy when served an expensive brand of dog or cat food. But do dogs and cats discern flavors, and, given the choice, would they prefer Alpo or Cesar to dog crap or dead rats?

Two Larrys buds, meaning they’re constantly tasting the river-bottom muck as they swim through it.

I’ll take the life of a chicken, thanks.

As for dogs, they have just 1,700 taste buds; cats make do with a paltry 470. In both, you won’t be surprised to learn, many of these buds are particularly attuned to meats, fats and the chemicals therein. Beyond basic meat-centricity, though, we see some divergence. Sweet tastes, for instance, also make it onto dogs’ radar — their taste buds respond to a chemical called furaneol, found in various fruits. (Note that they go for chocolate, even though it’s toxic to them.) Cats, on the other hand, are alone among the mammals in having no ability to detect sweetness — which, given the personality of some cats I’ve known, seems poetically fitting.

And it makes sense: Foodwise, one of the big differences between the two major pet blocs is that cats are wired to eat a lot more protein than

dogs. In recent studies of macronutrient selection — where test animals had access to a buffet of variously highprotein, high-fat, and highcarbohydrate foods and ate what they wanted — British pet nutritionists report that cats chose a nutrient balance of 52 percent protein, 36 percent fat and 12 percent carbohydrates, whereas dogs’ self-selected splits came out at 30 protein, 63 fat, 7 carbs.

Why the gap? The researchers suggest that until not too long ago, humans weren’t setting aside much meat for cats, who were expected to make their nutritional numbers via mousing — and the small animals cats remain famous for hunting tend, in fact, to contain about 50 percent protein. Dogs, conversely, are descended from pack hunters, who could land bigger prey with more body fat; then, of course, they tossed in their lot with people at least 15,000 years ago and have been eating our scraps ever since. (From a scavenging

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ven the most doting pet parents can have a tough time maintaining the illusion they’re dealing with a refined sensibility. The high-end kibble might indeed disappear from your dog’s dish, but that doesn’t mean she can’t find room for a bird corpse or discarded diaper afterward. Yes, dogs and cats do apparently taste flavors, but no, the fancy brands don’t necessarily contain more of what gets them salivating than the cheap stuff, just as beluga caviar won’t necessarily trip human taste receptors more reliably than a bag of Doritos.

Taste starts with the tongue, and the number of taste buds varies drastically among species — in some cases, pretty widely within species too.

Chickens have only about two dozen taste buds; humans tend to have somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000. A bigger number doesn’t automatically translate to a more sophisticated palate: Catfish have hundreds of thousands of external

perspective, a dog’s occasional willingness to eat actual turds isn’t as nutty as it seems — who knows, it figures, maybe there’s still some good stuff in there.)

Now, taste and smell are overlapping senses for most animals, and you and I aren’t even in our pets’ league when it comes to detecting scent.

Humans have maybe six million olfactory receptors in our noses, where cats can have up to 80 million and dogs as many as 300 million. Dogs and cats are also among the many critters whose mouths connect to their nasal passages through something called the vomeronasal organ, or Jacobson’s organ, containing its own set of receptors to detect chemicals like pheromones. Scientists are still studying this organ’s role, but with what’s essentially a second olfactory system running alongside the first one, pets may encounter their food via a multisensory experience it’d be hard for us to even comprehend.

With that said, there’s no solid evidence that dogs and cats are biologically predisposed to favor the flavor of a higher grade of meat, whether marketed as “organic” or

“natural,” to the organs and by-products processed into cheaper fare. In fact, some bargain-brand dog foods may please your pet more, because they’re highly sweetened.

None of this means there aren’t nutritional benefits to the pricier stuff, but I have neither the time nor the space to moderate the countless disputes over proper pet diet that have been stirred up in the two millennia since the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro advocated feeding sheepdogs milk-soaked bread and marrowbones.

Then again, no dog ever lifted its muzzle from the trash to consider a more upscale dining alternative offered on television. Advertisers set their snares for the species that’s holding the credit card, and American humans are their willing prey, shelling out more than $20 billion on pet food annually. And it’s not like marketing types don’t know their psychology: According to a 2014 Cornell study, people will tend to believe that their own food tastes better the more they pay for it. Sometimes you have to wonder just how much smarter than our pets we actually are.

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Charlotte, Connected by Land money inside. I told him that was fine, not bothering to request he leave his wallet or something to serve as a lien. He popped back out before I even got nervous, handing me a credit card.

“Mom insisted on paying,” he said sheepishly.

“Hey, nothing wrong with that,” I impressed on the youth. “You got a good mom.

Never forget that, and always treat her right.”

He laughed as I ran the credit card, saying, “You’re right about my moms, and I do try to treat her right.”

When I arrived back downtown, my very next customers asked to go to …

Charlotte. After the requisite “if-it’s-connected-byland” rejoinder (it’s really more of a tic), we took off.

Glancing in my rearview mirror, I saw a tall, pretty woman and an equally attractive man, both probably in their early thirties. The man — I quickly deduced from his compromised posture and slurry, goofy comments — was hammered. I’m talking full Black & Decker.

“Where exactly in Charlotte? Should I turn onto the Ferry Road?” I asked.

“Yes, we’re staying at a big house off the Ferry Road,” the woman replied. “A bunch of us rented the place for a wedding tomorrow.”

Fifteen minutes later on the Ferry Road, doing about 40, I suddenly heard whistling wind. For some reason, the man had opened his door.

“Close that, Ken!” the woman yelled. “If you have to heave, the taxi man will pull over. For crying out loud!”

Ken nodded, I pulled over, and he did his thing.

“Sorry,” he offered.

“No problem,” I said, passing him some napkins from the glove compartment. “You done good, soldier,” I commended him.

“You didn’t throw up in the taxi, and I can’t begin to express how happy that makes me.”

Cruising back into B-town, I was hailed by four hale-and-hearty young men standing in the street in front of Nectar’s. Uber be damned!

“Could you take us to Charlotte?” asked the leader of the pack. I’m beginning to detect a pattern, I thought.

“I sure will,” I replied and left it at that, proud of myself for skipping youknow-what. “Where in Charlotte?” I asked.

“We’re in town for a wedding and staying in a house—” “Jeez, don’t tell me,” I interrupted. “Just off the Ferry Road?”

“How’d ya guess?”

“I’m pretty sure I just dropped off a couple of your friends at the same place.

A tall, attractive girl, and the guy was, like, Ken? Ken vomited on the side of the road, by the way, before we got there.”

“That doofus! Boys, we have got to give him shit about that.”

They all piled in, rambunctious and tipsy.

“You mind, bud?” asked my seatmate, the lead dog, as he cranked up the radio volume without waiting for my answer. “What the hell are you listening to?” he demanded, as Christopher Cross serenaded us — something about the moon and New York City. I said, “I’m embarrassed to say I’m all about the soft-rock station these days. But go

IN AN INSTANT, ALL FOUR OF THE GUYS WERE SINGING ALONG.

ahead — it’s XM Satellite. Change it to whatever you like.”

“How about Shade 45?” one of the guys yelled from the back.

“You got it,” the lead dog affirmed, switching the station to 45. Assaultive, obscene rap music filled the taxi, as far from soft rock as Charlotte, Vt., is from Charlotte, N.C. “Oh, Christ,” I pleaded. “I honestly can’t take this right now.” Gauging their ages as 30 to 35, I figured them for ’90s guys. “How about the ’90s on 9 channel?” I suggested.

“Would that work?”

“Suuure,” my seatmate replied, taking pity on the old guy. He turned the channel to 9, and “MMMBop” blasted through the speakers. I actually know and like this happy, bouncy tune — a huge hit, written and performed by a band of young (actual) brothers called Hanson.

In an instant, all four of the guys were singing along at full volume, and they knew every single word, including the entire nonsense-word chorus. I had nailed their sweet spot, the music that was popular when they were young teenagers.

They didn’t have to guide me to the house, obviously, because I had just been there. I pulled into the wide driveway, which was dotted with about 10 cars, most with out-of-state plates. As the guys exited from the rear and my seatmate paid the fare, he said, “Hey, sorry for all the shit we gave you” and laid a generous tip on me.

“It’s all good. You’re a bunch of good guys. I could tell.”

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It was Saturday night, and I was first in line at the long taxi queue on lower Church Street. In this new era of the Uber taxi, I increasingly find myself making use of the taxi stands. Trolling around downtown for fares, my career-long forte, has become frustrating at best and infuriating at worst, with so many former taxi hailers now standing curbside, cellphones in hand, awaiting the arrival of their Uber cabs. Argh!

“I will take you anywhere you’d like,” I replied, “provided it’s connected by land.”

I’ve been cracking this joke for so many years now that I’ve lost track of whether it even qualifies as a joke.

“Great!” the young man said, throwing me a mercy chuckle and climbing into the shotgun seat.

“What a weekend,” he said, exhaling deeply as we zigzagged over to Route 7. “The restaurant I work at was jamming. I couldn’t tell you, like, how many covers, but it was nonstop.”

Driving so many restaurant workers over the years, I’ve picked up quite a bit of the business lingo. “Cover” is restaurant slang for one individual customer.

“You cooking or waiting tables?”

“I’m a line cook. During the day, I’m taking classes at CCV. If all goes according to plan, I’m transferring to St. Mike’s for the spring semester. I want to teach high school English.”

“Good for you, man,” I said. “I have such respect for people who gotta work their way through college. And teaching is a noble profession.”

When we reached his folks’ place in Charlotte, he said he needed to get the

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J. Donovan was running behind schedule last Friday morning.

He was supposed to be in plea negotiations on a pending fraud case, and then in a meeting with his top deputy prosecutors. So he got a little annoyed when a secretary reminded him, “You promised Dan Sedon 10 minutes.”

Sedon, one of Vermont’s most respected defense attorneys, represents 17-year-old Bradley Senna, whose 1 p.m. arraignment on a second-degree murder charge had Donovan’s office buzzing in anticipation. But that’s not what Sedon wanted to chat about in a conference room adjacent to Donovan’s office on the third floor of Burlington’s superior court.

Instead, Sedon had a pitch for the prosecutor: He proposed that Donovan help lead a statewide public relations and education campaign to combat opiate abuse, similar to the national anti-tobacco campaign that reduced smoking.

“You’ve got to bend the curve,” said Sedon, who is based in Orange County. “I don’t see bumper stickers; I don’t see ads, billboards. It should be everywhere.”

Donovan, who had started the meeting with some reluctance, began to warm to the idea.

“So how do we do it?

Because I agree with you,” Donovan said. “No one says, ‘I want to be a heroin addict today.’”

“Enlist Vermonters in the cause. Enlist creative

“I used to be more cynical, thinking the stuff he’s doing is just for the next election, but look at what he tries to do on the ground — you can’t argue with it,” said Defender General Matt Valerio, who supervises dozens of public defenders who do battle with prosecutors on a daily basis. “A lot of the ideas that he has put forward have been floated by the defense bar, social workers, treatment people and the like. But it took a prosecutor to take those ideas to the mainstream. The unique magic he has is, he uses the pulpit of a prosecutor to advance some of these more progressive criminal justice ideas.”

Donovan says he is trying to fix a broken system that has ruined countless lives without improving safety.

The Burlington native, who had his own brush with the law, personally knows many of the people he has prosecuted.

“Anyone who has done this long enough can see the failure of the system,” Donovan, 42, said. “You’re

VIRTUALLY EVERYONE IN VERMONT POLITICS — INCLUDING HIS OWN LEGISLATOR MOTHER — THINKS DONOVAN COULD USE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL JOB AS A SPRINGBOARD TO A HIGHER OFFICE.

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Donovan’s day had started almost two hours earlier, at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center, where he met with two men who launched a special court program for veterans in Massachusetts.

Donovan peppered the men with questions and, with deft prosecutorial probing, exhumed a crucial nugget of information in the jumble of facts they threw at him: Any veteran who serves more than 60 days in prison loses his or her military benefits, including access to treatment programs. That could happen even under a relatively generous plea deal for many lowlevel crimes.

“I didn’t know that!” Donovan said. “I guarantee you no one in the Vermont criminal justice system knows that. Again, the unintended consequences of the system.”

Donovan returned to the courthouse and hustled up the stairs to his third-floor office — he claims to never use an elevator — met with Sedon, and then ducked into the hallway for a few minutes.

WCAX-TV needed a quick, on-camera interview on the Senna case. Donovan bantered easily with reporter Kyle Midura, asking about a wedding the reporter had recently attended before delivering succinct answers in a three-minute interview.

Then: a case he excitedly labeled “classic Vermont.”

After a long investigation, a Plattsburgh man was charged with fraud for submitting a 10-pound walleye that he might not have caught during last year’s Lake Champlain International fishing derby. The fraudulent fish netted him the $13,000 grand prize.

LCI president James Ehlers, a longtime Donovan friend and environmental activist, and public defender Sandra Lee sat down with the prosecutor to try to hammer out a settlement and compensate the fishermen who won lesser prizes.

“Your guy has to pay,” Donovan told Lee. “My guy absolutely wants to work something out,” she told him.

The three of them haggled back and forth, until Donovan got a phone call and had to leave the meeting.

Judge James Crucitti had summoned him for a private chat.

When he returned to Lee and Ehlers, they resumed talks but quickly realized that working out restitution would be more complicated than anyone expected, and the group broke up without a deal in place.

From fish fraud, Donovan turned his attention to homicide cases. In the same conference room, he convened deputy prosecutors Susan Hardin, who handles many of the office’s homicide and sex assault cases, and Bram Kranichfeld, who is viewed as Donovan’s probable successor.

Donovan ran quickly through several pending highprofile homicides, asking Hardin whether it was time to make plea offers in any of them.

They grappled for 10 minutes trying to decide whether to offer one defendant a deal on a manslaughter charge or pursue a second-degree murder charge at trial, despite some concerns about the strength of their evidence.

“I think it’s a second-degree case, but I see the risk, to be honest with you,” Donovan said. He then instructed

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in court. You see the same people time and time again, and you ask, ‘Why?’ We know who the bad guys are.

It’s a small percentage, maybe 15 to 20 percent of the caseload. The rest are good people, and they deserve a chance. The vast majority of them are experiencing issues of housing, mental health, addiction, lack of education, poverty. If our job is public safety, we can’t just throw them in jail and say, ‘Fix your behavior,’ when we haven’t addressed the underlying crises.”

Once an electoral career killer, that forgiving philosophy is gaining traction nationwide. In the past two years, President Barack Obama has commuted 562 sentences for nonviolent criminals — more than his past nine predecessors combined — and called for an end to mass incarceration.

Donovan beat Obama to it. “T.J. … has developed a long-standing platform and reputation for the kinds of initiatives that he is going to take,” Schirling acknowledged. But he’s not just being altruistic, Schirling added. “There’s a political thread that runs through all of this, and he doesn’t try to hide that.”

Quite the contrary: Donovan embraces it.

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people,” Sedon said. “We’ll never solve the problem until the whole culture gets behind it.”

Sedon was making his case to the right guy. While nominally still the top law enforcement officer in Chittenden County, charged with overseeing 30 staffers and 5,000 cases annually, Donovan is the overwhelming favorite to win election as Vermont’s attorney general in November. The current AG, 19-year incumbent Bill Sorrell, is retiring.

Not since Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) held Donovan’s job has a public prosecutor in Vermont been so politically adept — or ambitious. “The politics is closer to the surface with his administration than we have seen with prior state’s attorneys in Chittenden County,” said former Burlington police chief Michael Schirling, whose officers sent their cases to Donovan’s office for prosecution.

Some people in judicial circles call Donovan “TV T.J.,” and he confesses to a fondness for bright lights.

His decision to challenge Attorney General Sorrell in the 2012 Democratic primary, which narrowly failed, was seen as a ballsy move in a state where contested primaries are rare. Virtually everyone in Vermont politics — including his own legislator mother — thinks Donovan could use the attorney general job as a springboard to a higher office.

“There’s a joke that AG means ‘aspiring governor,’” said Donovan’s opponent, St. Johnsbury attorney Deb Bucknam. Despite her token challenge, Donovan has amassed a $260,000 campaign war chest, including contributions from well-heeled out-of state attorneys, that could come in handy in future races.

But if Donovan has electoral ambitions, he is also credited with taking bold — and politically risky — steps to upend the criminal justice system and scrap the traditional law-and-order playbook, years before those ideas were politically popular.

While many prosecutors, including Leahy, talked tough on crime en route to higher offices, Donovan has built a reputation for giving breaks to people who have broken the law. He has occasionally irritated police, and he counts defense attorneys among his most ardent supporters.

Two of Donovan’s signature initiatives — a program to divert drug addicts out of the court system and an amnesty day for mostly poor people who have accumulated hundreds of dollars in overdue traffic fines — are being replicated throughout the state.

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“No question about it: top priority, this case,” Donovan said. “Give away the other stuff. Get rid of the shit cases.

That’s the priority … OK, what else do I need to know?”

Donovan doesn’t handle most of the cases that come to his office. As he acknowledges, he is more of an administrator than a courtroom prosecutor. In other Vermont counties, where state’s attorneys have only a few deputies, the top prosecutors often personally try homicides and high-profile cases and, if their colleagues are swamped, lowerlevel ones, too.

With a dozen deputies at his disposal, Donovan views his job as setting the tone, supporting his subordinates and staying out of their way. As years have gone on, he said, he has become increasingly focused on policy — and his campaign.

“You have to delegate, especially in this office,” he said. “I don’t think the Chittenden County state’s attorney can be the top trial lawyer. The job is too big.”

That kind of hands-off approach is the last thing the AG’s office needs, according to Bucknam. She expressed concern that as the state’s law enforcement officer, Donovan would be more interested in “what looks good and what sits well with the press and public.”

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Dem Donovans Donovan stands six feet tall and has dark hair and a small but growing bald patch.

He has two sons, ages 6 and 4, with his wife, Jessica McCloud, a mental health counselor. They live in an upper-middleclass neighborhood between Spear Street and Route 7 in South Burlington.

Donovan is a born raconteur who easily engages people. That includes defendants and their friends and families in the courthouse and on the street. His most distinctive feature is a raspy voice that sounds like it’s in perpetual need of a throat lozenge.

“He’s certainly not a shy guy,” according to his mother, Rep. Johannah “Joey” Leddy Donovan (D-Burlington), an influential Statehouse liberal. “He loves working a room, he loves talking to people and he loves listening … and hearing their stories. I think that’s probably what he’s most effective at doing.”

Donovan is a basketball nerd, whose primary motivation at Burlington High School, as his mother remembers it, was keeping his grades up so he could

stay on the team. He unwinds most winter nights watching college hoops on ESPN: When Donovan learned that this reporter attended the University of Maryland, he rattled off the starting lineup of the school’s basketball team — from 2002.

If he wasn’t a prosecutor, Donovan says, he would have been a high school history teacher and basketball coach.

But politics runs in the family.

Donovan, who has five sisters, was born into Vermont Democratic royalty.

Burlington’s Leddy Park is named after his grandfather, Bernard; President Lyndon Johnson appointed him as a federal judge after Leddy narrowly lost

execute his backup plan of working as a teacher.

Donovan graduated from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., in 1996. He then took a yearlong break back home, where he drove the courtesy shuttle for a Burlington car dealership, before leaving for Suffolk Law School in Boston. Post-bar, he landed a job as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, prosecuting mostly low-level drug cases.

For the first time, he saw gross inequities in the criminal justice system.

“That really was a unbelievable eyeopener for him to the issues of poverty and certainly to the issues of race,” his mother said. “He quickly realized he

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in the 1958 governor’s race. Donovan’s mother is currently serving her 16th year in the legislature. Only one other IrishCatholic clan — the Sorrells — wielded comparable influence in Burlington.

Sorrell declined an interview request for this story.

“I grew up in a house where politicians were larger than life,” Donovan said. “A Ward 6 city council race was like the presidential election in my house.”

Donovan’s late father, Thomas, was a general practice attorney in Burlington who worked solo, handling everything from estates to low-level criminal cases.

He told his children about his clients and some of the struggles they faced.

The tales of woe made an impression on young T.J., who read a lot but was an “indifferent student,” as he phrased it.

At 18, he became a defendant himself when a boys’ night out on Church Street turned into a violent melee. Donovan, who described the incident as a fistfight between two groups of men who “probably had too much to drink,” was charged with aggravated assault. As part of a plea deal, he received a threeyear deferred sentence. He completed 100 hours of community service, paid a $1,000 fine and eventually had the conviction expunged. A felony conviction on his record would have made it difficult for Donovan to borrow money for school and could have complicated his bid to become a lawyer — or even

was prosecuting poor people and often people of color, and … reckoning with the fact that some people in our society do not get the same chances as others.”

Donovan returned to Vermont, worked as deputy state’s attorney in the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office, then left for private practice at Jarvis & Kaplan.

When his old boss, former Chittenden County state’s attorney Bob Simpson, retired in 2006, Donovan ran for the job. With the backing of his influential family, he knocked off deputy John St. Francis with more than 70 percent of the vote, securing a four-year term. In the spirit of Abraham Lincoln’s “team of rivals,” he kept St. Francis on as a deputy.

The Power of Forgiveness Almost immediately Donovan started using his office as a testing ground for his theories on criminal justice reform.

His signal achievement, which Donovan touts at every public appearance, is Rapid Intervention Community Court, which he launched in 2010. The idea is to identify repeat, nonviolent criminals — the people Donovan said he sees in court over and over — and remove them from the criminal justice system before they ever step foot in a courtroom.

RICC officials help the defendants get into treatment and counseling. If they

succeed in their required programs and stay out of trouble, the criminal charge never gets filed. If they flunk out, they answer to the charge.

RICC has been the highest-profile initiative in Vermont to upend the traditional, punitive approach to justice. Last year alone, nearly 250 people who would have been charged and likely convicted of crimes graduated from RICC without ever seeing a judge.

An early study suggested that defendants were less likely to reoffend if they made it through RICC. In 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin and lawmakers, hell-bent on addressing Vermont’s “opiate crisis,” passed a law that aimed to duplicate the program in every county in the state. While the initiative has sputtered, responsibility for its statewide implementation recently switched from the Department of Corrections to the Attorney General’s Office. Many say the move anticipates Donovan running that office.

RICC has out-of-state admirers, too. New York City corporate attorney Richard Raysman stumbled across Donovan’s program while serving on a New York State Bar Association committee devoted to recently released inmates. He was so impressed that he cut Donovan a $1,000 campaign check, introduced him to several influential New Yorkers and arranged for him to meet with the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.

“I think T.J. is doing the right thing, but it’s difficult for a prosecutor to take that position because they get elected by saying, ‘We’re going to make the city safe,’” Raysman, a Republican, said. “It’s courageous, what T.J. has been doing.”

In March 2015, Donovan announced the Costello Courthouse would shut down normal operations for a day to host a driver restoration day. Motorists whose licenses had been suspended because of unpaid traffic tickets could pay $20 per infraction and get their privileges restored.

The initiative was designed to address a problem that doesn’t garner headlines but, experts say, has devastating consequences for the poor. More than 20,000 Vermonters have delinquent traffic tickets, and many are unable to pay and so lose their license. But they keep driving to work, get pulled over by police for driving with suspended licenses, and slowly accumulate more and more fines.

Activists call it a “poverty trap.”

Donovan said he initially expected that only a few hundred people would take advantage of the amnesty. But more than 1,000 showed up on a frigid March day, lining downtown sidewalks around

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that often stem from drug use and mental health issues.

“Most people want to do the right thing, but for a variety of reasons they don’t,” Donovan said. “We don’t have to overreach and over-punish people.”

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Not surprisingly, Donovan’s attitude hasn’t endeared him to cops.

Though he has scored the endorsement of the Vermont Troopers Association — the union traditionally sides with Democratic candidates — Donovan acknowledged an oft-strained relationship with local police. His job, as he sees it, is to act as a filter between law enforcement and the courts, not simply to pass along cases that police build.

“Cops would like every arrest they make to be prosecuted, and they get frustrated with seeing recidivists back on the street,” Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo said.

South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple was less diplomatic.

Concerned about a spike in local prostitution, his department spent weeks in the summer of 2014 building a case that

eventually resulted in the arrest of seven men whom an undercover officer lured from outside the area for a purported rendezvous. Whipple’s department sent out a press release touting the arrests. But Donovan quickly dropped the charges against the men and had them attend a class about the “complex circumstances that underlie prostitution.”

“At first, the officers were incredibly upset, and I was like, ‘What?’” Whipple said. “There have been things I haven’t agreed with, and I call him up and say, ‘T.J., what are you doing? Why did you dump it? It’s a good case.’ The thing I can say is, he always takes my calls, and sometimes we get somewhere, and sometimes he goes, ‘Trevor, I’m sorry you don’t like it, but that’s what I’ve done.’”

Donovan further risked his reputation among local law enforcement by pursuing criminal charges against Winooski police officer Jason Nokes. In April 2013, Nokes shot and wounded an unarmed paranoid schizophrenic, Isaac Sage, after the mentally ill man failed to obey Noke’s commands and punched the police officer in the face.

In almost all cases involving police use of force, local prosecutors defer to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office,

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the courthouse for a quarter mile in every direction, waiting hours in the cold to get inside.

Halfway through the day, Donovan slipped outside and walked the line. He shook hands, joked with people, asked about their siblings and loved ones.

Everyone seemed to know him — or at least knew his name.

In the following months, other Vermont counties held driver restoration days based on Donovan’s model.

“The driver restoration thing, he didn’t have to do that, but it’s the right thing to do,” longtime Vermont attorney Robert Appel said. “Why beat up on poor people more than they are already beaten? I think he understands more than most in his position what it’s like.”

In addition to the headline-grabbing initiatives, Donovan and his deputies have made hundreds of small decisions to siphon cases away from the court system. He is known among defense attorneys for cutting generous plea deals with nonviolent criminals. And his office often refuses to even file low-level check forgery cases — common among the poor and drug addicts — along with scores of unlawful trespass, retail theft, low-level prostitution and other misdemeanors

which traditionally clears the officer of wrongdoing.

Donovan took the unusual step of presenting the case to a grand jury, which returned indictments against Nokes. He then took the case to court.

It was the first time in recent memory that a Vermont cop faced criminal charges for shooting a civilian. Nokes eventually pled guilty to two misdemeanors and forfeited his right to work again in law enforcement.

Former Winooski police chief Steve McQueen said the case created “a conflict” among his officers that made it “challenging” to keep them in line.

Donovan put him in a tough spot. “I may have disagreed with the decision to prosecute, but I still had to respect it,” McQueen recalled.

“It’s about public trust, and an unarmed mentally ill man got shot,” Donovan said in his own defense. “Those are the facts. It was the right decision to make. Sure, people may not talk to me anymore. That’s life.”

Not long after prosecuting Nokes, Donovan surprised observers by launching a campaign to unseat Sorrell, whose family has been friends with Donovan’s for decades.

Though he started out relatively unknown outside Chittenden County, Donovan initially raised more money and scored more newspaper endorsements than Sorrell. As Election Day grew near, Donovan said, he felt increasingly confident of scoring an upset.

“I went into that race to win. I’m not sure the other side anticipated how hard we would work. I worked my tail off,” Donovan said. “I outworked him, outorganized him … but a few things happened at the end.”

Two things happened. A super PAC connected to the Democratic Attorneys General Association launched a $200,000 television advertising blitz on behalf of Sorrell.

And Seven Days became the first media outlet to report that Donovan had been arrested and charged with aggravated assault for a fracas on Church Street when he was 18 years old.

Donovan acknowledged the incident and has since made it part of his personal narrative: The prosecutor has known trouble and seen firsthand the benefits that can come from getting a second chance.

Does that make him empathetic, opportunistic — or both? Bucknam warned that such maneuvering should “give voters pause.”

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At noon, Donovan slipped out for a quick three-mile run in downtown Burlington — something he tries to do four days a week. He was back and showered in time for Senna’s 1 p.m. arraignment in a courtroom packed with security officers, distraught community members and television cameras.

On August 27, the 17-year-old Senna allegedly got into a drunken fight with 54-year-old David Hojohn in downtown Winooski. Felled by a punch, Hojohn had to be hospitalized; the teenager was charged with aggravated assault.

Eleven days later, Hojohn died. Cause of death: blunt force trauma to the head.

Donovan’s office upgraded the charge to second-degree murder, necessitating a new arraignment.

Hardin handled the brief proceeding.

Donovan sat a row behind her, listening intently as Sedon tried to argue that there was not enough evidence to support the murder charge. Judge Dennis Pearson disagreed and ordered Senna held without bail pending trial.

Outside the courtroom, as reporters gathered near a corner window, a group of Senna’s friends huddled together in the nearby hallway and spoke angrily about seeking retribution on his behalf.

Some quietly threatened to start trouble with Hojohn’s family, standing a few feet away, just out of earshot. Others struggled to understand how one punch could lead to a murder charge.

Though Donovan had been quiet through the hearing and his name was never mentioned in court, everyone in the courtroom seemed to know him.

“Hey, T.J., can we talk, brother?” a tattooed twentysomething friend of Senna’s asked Donovan as he walked out of the courtroom. Donovan nodded, then ducked into a conference room.

He emerged to a small cluster of TV cameras, joked comfortably with the reporters and answered questions about the case. The clips ran that night on every major Vermont station.

A few minutes later, in his office one floor above the courtroom, Donovan and his team met with Hojohn’s family. He had previously prosecuted some of them for low-level crimes, including Hojohn’s son, whom he told: “I don’t give a shit about the past, all right? This is about your old man and what happened, all right? So let’s move forward.”

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Employees’ Association, perhaps the state’s most influential union, was holding its annual banquet at Killington resort that evening, and all the major Democrat candidates were expected to attend and press the flesh.

Whytnee Bush, Donovan’s sole campaign staffer, picked him up and steered her car south on Route 7. About 30 minutes into the drive,

“Hang in there. Let me know if there is anything I can do,” Donovan told Louras at a downtown coffee shop, before posing for a quick picture with Louras that within minutes was posted to the campaign’s Instagram account.

Then it was on to the VSEA dinner at the swanky Killington Grand Resort Hotel.

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BY PURSUING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST WINOOSKI POLICE OFFICER JASON NOKES. Donovan peered up from his phone and announced an unexpected stop: Before arriving in Killington, they would swing through Rutland and meet that city’s mayor, Chris Louras, a Donovan supporter who is under immense criticism for backing a plan to bring 100 Syrian refugees to his struggling city.

The dining room was full of state employees, campaign staff and volunteers. Having already secured the VSEA’s endorsement, Donovan waved and gave a thumbs-up when his name was mentioned, drank a beer, ate some rubber chicken, slapped backs, posed for pictures, passed out campaign stickers and slipped out the door

before the other candidates, including Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter and lieutenant governor hopeful Sen. David Zuckerman (P/D-Chittenden).

Next stop: Choices Restaurant.

A few days earlier, Burlington attorney Norman Blais had mentioned to Donovan that his brother Claude owns an eatery in Killington. Donovan wanted to stop and say hi. “Just for a minute, make the connection,” Donovan told Bush.

He hopped out of her car and meandered up a sloping walkway to the half-full restaurant. “We’re looking for every vote there is,” he said, to no one in particular.

Inside, the hostess was not at her stand, but a cook passed by. Donovan asked if he could see Claude.

“He’s pretty busy behind the line,” the cook said. “What’s your name?”

“T.J. Donovan.”

A minute later, Claude Blais emerged for a quick, friendly chat.

That turned into an invitation to grab a beer. Of course, Donovan said yes. Fiddlehead in hand, he worked patrons at the U-shaped bar for 45 minutes.

“Hi, I’m T.J. Donovan, I’m running for attorney general, State of Vermont,” he said time and again.

Some recognized him; most didn’t: Tourist-filled Killington is probably not the best place to troll for votes.

As Donovan chatted up a middleage couple sipping white wine at the bar, Blais surveyed the crowd and confided to this reporter: “Only one of them lives in Vermont.”

Donovan didn’t appear to care.

He was in his element, sidling up to people, making connections without disrupting anyone’s evening for too long.

One got the impression that, were he not running for anything, he’d probably be doing the exact same thing — although maybe in more comfortable clothing.

Donovan’s two kids were probably fast asleep by the time Donovan said his goodbyes, slumped into Bush’s shotgun seat, cranked the Tragically Hip — his favorite band — and started singing and air drumming, a full 14 hours after his day started.

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s Eusheen Goines quickly approached his 3 p.m. deadline, he was smoking on a pipe — not puffing it, but creating it.

The Evergreen, Colo.-based artist, known among professional glassblowers by his first name, stood at a two-foot jet of blue fire, rapidly working rods of raw glass into a stunning work of art. It was September 2015 at the Bern Gallery’s Pipe Classic 10 — the Burlington smoke shop and glass school’s annual pipemaking throw down — and, like all competitors, Eusheen had just 12 hours to complete a pipe that normally might take him days or even weeks.

Sporting a black T-shirt, a green wool cap, gloves and dark protective eyewear, Eusheen stood at the torch for nearly six hours without resting or eating, as several dozen spectators watched his every move. (Each year, the Bern Gallery documents the event on a video, where this

reporter watched it, and also streams it live on YouTube.) From the corner of his mouth hung a flexible blow hose, which enabled him to occasionally puff air into the molten orange glass while simultaneously twisting, pulling and bending it into various shapes and sizes.

“How many minutes do I got?”

Eusheen barked, at no one in particular.

“Two exactly,” someone yelled.

With 50 seconds remaining, Eusheen gave a glowing orange globule one final dab with a steel tool, then lifted a kiln door and gently placed his finished piece inside. From the opposite side of a Plexiglas safety partition, the crowd erupted in cheers. Eusheen finished his pipe, which ultimately won first place, with just 30 seconds left on the clock.

When it was over, a tired but relievedlooking Eusheen shared a fist bump with Bern Gallery co-owner and Pipe Classic

founder Tito Bern, then exclaimed, “That was crazy as fuck!”

The same could be said about the Pipe Classic itself. The national glassblowing flame-off, held each year at Bern Gallery in the third week of September, has a solid claim on being the first-ever glassblowing tournament in the country to celebrate the art of glass pipes, bongs and bubblers. Though copycat competitions have since arisen elsewhere, those who’ve attended Pipe Classic insist that this event is like no other for its sheer artistry, intensity, fairness and raucous partying.

This week, Eusheen, 37, is back in Burlington defending his title at Pipe Classic 11, which began on Monday, September 19, and runs through Saturday, September 24. The event, much of which is free and open to the public, attracts glassblowers, smokeshop owners and collectors from around

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North America. Several hundred have paid for a judge’s pass, which lets them vote on the winners and bid on finished pieces at this weekend’s auction.

Though Bern Gallery hosts Pipe Classic, it doesn’t pick the competitors.

Instead, an independent, 11-member committee of industry professionals selects 12 pipe makers from the United States and Canada to go head-to-head.

Pipe Classic’s four rules haven’t changed since the first glass bowl-a-thon was held in 2006: Each piece must be made from scratch by an unassisted solo artist; it must be produced in the Bern Gallery; it must be completed within 12 hours — divided into two six-hour sessions held on consecutive days; and the finished piece must be a functional pipe or be attached to one.

Every year, the level of competition rises — as do the prices paid for the finished pieces. At Pipe Classic 1, the top pipe sold for a few thousand dollars.

At Pipe Classic 6, the first-place winner netted more than $5,000; a year later it was $8,000. Eusheen’s winning pipe last year, a complex contraption that bubbled and swirled water like a moonshine still, sold at auction for $14,500.

Despite the event’s growing prestige, Pipe Classic has gone largely unheralded

adds, pointing to a high-rise near Bern Gallery. “It’s heavy pressure.” Still, even a broken pipe once sold at auction for $900.

But despite the quasi-outlaw nature of his craft, Bern can recall only one actual run-in with police. During Pipe Classic 6, competitor Adam G. — no relation to Bern — was walking back from the judging event at Nectar’s with his entry: a black, authentic-looking crossbow. While en route, a bystander mistook it for a real weapon and called

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the police, who briefly detained the artist. Only after the officer realized the crossbow was made of glass would he let people pose with it in front of his cruiser.

Which is not to suggest that the Pipe Classic doesn’t live up to its rowdy reputation. Each year, Bern rents several houses on Lake Champlain where competitors and their partners stay.

According to Salt’s Field Guide to Pipe Classic 7, a coffee-table book about the event, Bern has burned bridges with several Burlington-area landlords due to loud parties, excessive numbers of

guests and unauthorized, late-night motorboat outings.

“There are a lot of degenerates and outlaws in this industry, that’s for sure,” Bern confesses with a grin. “So when you get them all in one place, it gets a little loopy sometimes.”

Still, it’s not all bong hits and boat rides. For the night between six-hour sessions, Bern offers hotel rooms to competitors who prefer to be “sequestered” from the temptation to party until dawn.

After 10 years of competition, if Bern has one all-time favorite pipe, he’s reluctant to name it. Still, he remembers one especially memorable “performance piece” from Pipe Classic 7, created by Burlington artist Kurt B. During that event, Kurt B. set up a translucent, backlit screen in front of his bench, so that spectators could watch the shadow of the pipe as it took shape. For hours, its final form remained a mystery.

“Everyone was like, ‘What’s he doing?’” Bern recalls. “And then, slowly but surely, the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe started to appear. It was so outside the box, one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.”

Though the competition is fierce, participants relish the Pipe Classic’s collegial atmosphere.

Kurt B. likens it to a skateboarding championship, where even competitors are psyched to see a fellow skater land an impressive new move. Little wonder that some competitors spend their down time at the Burlington skate park.

As for Bern, he doesn’t mind that he doesn’t get to compete himself; he just enjoys watching people blow cool pipes.

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Though glass flame-offs are now held in many other states, Pipe Classic attendees insist that the Burlington event is unique. First, because Bern Gallery has enough space for only three glassblowers to work simultaneously, the competition is held in heats. The first begins at 4 p.m. Monday and runs until 10 p.m., then resumes Tuesday at 9 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. Once the first three pipes are completed, the second heat commences. This allows competitors to be spectators, too.

“I love to watch other glassblowers work,” says three-time Pipe Classic veteran Chris Vickers, aka “Hickory,” a Danby glassblower who won first place at Pipe Classic 6 with a mushroomthemed bong. “Even someone who’s been blowing glass for 15 years can look at a finished piece and go, ‘How did they do that?’ So you’re constantly learning.”

Another part of Pipe Classic’s appeal is its fairness. Eusheen, who’s competed in other national glassblowing tourneys, explains that some other events allow competitors to arrive with nearly finished components and assemble them the day of the competition, giving them an unfair advantage.

“Pipe Classic is not like that,” he says. “It’s fair in every way. That’s kind of rare nowadays.”

Contrary to the slacker-stoner stereotype, most Pipe Classic competitors prepare for months beforehand.

Hickory, 46, says he attempted several dry runs on his winning piece within the 12-hour window but admits he never finished one prior to the event itself.

“The competition is tough,” he says.

“You go in knowing these guys are giving it their all and pulling out all the stops.

So the pressure is pretty high.”

Sometimes too high. According to Bern, it’s not uncommon for glassblowers to push the envelope so hard that they break a piece in the final hours, or minutes, of competition.

“We’ve had multiple people chuck them off the roof of that building,” he

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in the Queen City. “The weirdest thing about the Pipe Classic is that it’s this huge national event where we have people coming from all over the country,” says Bern. “But locally, it’s like it’s not even happening.”

That’s understandable, given the art form’s history. Mainstream society long thought of glass-pipe making as an underground, even degenerate, endeavor. For years many states, including Vermont, considered glass pipes to be drug paraphernalia that were subject to seizure. Hence the absurd caveat that adorns every glass-pipe store: “For tobacco use only.”

In recent years, however, as marijuana was decriminalized in Vermont and pot prohibition snuffed out in other states, pipe making has evolved beyond its utilitarian, weed-smoking roots — though cannabis consumption remains popular among Pipe Classic competitors and spectators alike. Today, some glass collectors wouldn’t dream of stuffing a nug into an award-winning pipe.

Pipe Classic was the brainchild of Bern, aka Adam Gross, who was born in Brazil and grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. Bern, who started blowing glass in 1999, sold them freelance on the road with his wife, Mikaela, before opening Bern Gallery with her in 2004. Long a fan of competitions, from poker tournaments to professional cook-offs, Bern soon envisioned one for glass-pipe makers, too.

Years ago, he explains, Bern and his glassblowing buddies would watch the cheesy ’80s cult film North Shore, about an Arizona teen who travels to Hawaii to compete in the Pipe Classic surfing championship. Later, when Bern began to contemplate a name for his pipemaking contest — no such event existed previously — he remembers thinking, Hmm. Pipe Classic. How perfect.

Bern soon discovered that the domain names for the surfing event were available, as it had since been renamed the Billabong Pipe Pro. So he bought up all the domain names for Pipe Classic, then got on the phone and invited a dozen of the best glassblowers he knew. Pipe Classic 1, held in September 2006, featured mostly Vermont artists, though one competitor came from British Columbia.

“I wasn’t 100 percent sure about the idea and didn’t know whether it was going to work at all,” Bern admits.

However, among the Pipe Classic’s first corporate sponsors was a torch manufacturer called Glass Torch Technologies, which offered $3,000 and $4,000 torches as prizes that year. “So, right off the bat, that got everyone’s attention,” he says.

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elly Ravin is where he often is these days: standing on the stage of a small local bar. He’s tuning his low-slung guitar as I cross the threshold of the Monkey House, my vision adjusting from the bright, late-summer sun to the dusk of the Winooski juke joint. When he sees me, Ravin smiles and waves a long, railthin arm.

“Hey, man,” he says. Then, “Oh, don’t mind Ron. He’s just the town drunk.”

I look down the bar and see a youngish, scruffy-looking fella bellied up to a Bud bottle. Ron? Then my gaze shifts

to the floor. A small black border collie with an adorably stubby white nose is padding over to sniff my legs. Ron. I scratch Ravin’s friendly four-legged roadie behind the ear and sidle up to the bar to order a Bud bottle of my own — inspired either by the barfly or by the battered Budweiser trucker cap that Ravin sports above his blond hair. As I tip the beer back, he gently picks on his guitar, a newly minted Creston Electric Telecaster. It’s white and emblazoned with bright-red roses and cardinals, painted by Burlington artist Sarah Ryan in her signature western style. As Ravin

begins to sing, his effortless rasp mingles with the clack of pool balls and mild bar chatter.

“You may not be old enough to breathe,” he sings. “But you’ll never be old enough to leave.” Then: “You’re making me the man I want to be. You bring me to my knees.”

The song, like his new guitar, is called “Virginia,” after Ravin’s newborn daughter. Quietly beautiful, the tune briefly silences the smattering of early Monday evening drinkers. Even the bartender stops to listen. When he finishes, Ravin, normally breezy onstage, offers quick thanks and takes a minute for himself before launching into his next song.

Later, over Buds and Jim Beam at a dive bar a few blocks away, Ravin tells me, “It took me a long time before I could make it all the way through that one without choking up.” Given that a tear nearly fell in my own beer while he was singing the song, I’m inclined to believe him.

“Virginia” doesn’t appear on Ravin’s new record, Bonneville, which comes out this week. But he’ll most likely play it at the album-release party on Saturday, September 24, at ArtsRiot in Burlington.

Of all the songs in his latest suite of material, perhaps none embodies Bonneville’s fundamental theme so much as the song that’s not on it.

“It’s really about changes, transitions,” says Ravin of the record, sipping on his neat whiskey.

The birth of his first child surely tops the list of changes in his life. But there have been others, too. Notably, the recent hiatus of his band, Waylon Speed, long regarded as one of Burlington’s most promising and successful acts.

Ravin, 31, is tall, lean, handsome and heavily tattooed. He’s almost impossibly laid-back, with a goofy, boyish charm that contrasts with his neck-to-toe ink.

But he turns contemplative when asked about the past, present and future of Waylon Speed. Ravin’s alert blue eyes

dim as he grasps his beer bottle with both hands on the bar. He’s visibly reluctant to talk too much about the band, or to divulge why it unceremoniously stopped playing.

“It was my favorite fucking band ever,” he blurts out, before seeming to catch himself speaking in past tense. “I love playing with them, and I love those guys.”

Though he’s careful, even stingy, on the subject of Waylon Speed, Ravin’s pain and regret come through.

“They taught me pretty much everything I know about making music,” he adds.

Lately, he’s put that knowledge to good use. Ravin doesn’t have a day job and plays solo gigs in bars from Burlington to Bristol to Montpelier almost nightly.

That routine has helped him hone and elevate his craft.

The result is Bonneville, which, simply put, is the finest album of his career. It also marks the completion of another, longer transition for Ravin: from acoustic pop troubadour to alt-country bard.

BONNEVILLE MARKS THE COMPLETION OF ANOTHER, LONGER TRANSITION FOR RAVIN:

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ment himself, as he did on County Tracks, he enlisted a slew of guest players. Son Volt guitarist Mark Spencer, who produced Waylon Speed’s 2014 record Kin, plays pedal steel on seven of the record’s 11 tracks. Tucker Hanson adds fiddle, and Timothy Short plays accordion on the closer, “Headline Show” — a not-so-subtle lament for Waylon Speed. Ravin’s fellow WS front man, Noah Crowther, sings backing vocals on two cuts.

Ditto local songwriter Lowell Thompson, a frequent collaborator and gig partner.

The material on the new record could be seen as an extension of County Tracks; the dusty imprint of Earle, McMurtry and others is readily apparent. Ravin doesn’t exactly transcend those influences so much as he refracts them. Plenty of stock Americana imagery appears in his writing — roads, cars, whiskey, lowlifes.

But Ravin navigates twangy tropes with remarkable depth and nuance.

On “Fourth of July,” he uses a boozy backwoods Independence Day party both to critique and to embrace flag-waving patriotism. On “Five Dollars and Joint,” which could be a lost Waylon Speed cut, he playfully writes about being broke and high. The record’s title track is an oddly touching love song about buying drugs for your sweetheart.

Ravin approaches the flawed subjects of his American gothic tales with empathy. Even with the slight twang he affects when singing, that compassion lends his music authenticity — a quality some-

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times in short supply in the crowded Americana field.

Ravin’s music is genuine because he is.

While he may have had designs on stardom in his earlier years, he’s now embraced music not as a vehicle for fame but as a way of life. You can hear that in his songs.

When we part ways, Ravin gives me a bear hug and saunters off to his pickup truck, where Ron waits patiently in the passenger seat. In the back is the baby’s car seat, along with an amp and a guitar case. It was probably a scene just like this, heading home some night after a gig, that inspired one of the most affecting lines in “Virginia.” Its sentiment should be the centerpiece of Ravin’s next great album: “I’m going to pack it up and get my ass home / because I’m never going to leave you alone.”

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His first exposure to the Vermont music scene was as the front man of Lucy Vincent, a modestly popular groovepop trio that claimed residence in both Burlington and Martha’s Vineyard in the mid- to late 2000s. Ravin is the first to admit that trio’s beachy disposition was sunny bordering on cheesy. (Think a New England version of G. Love & Special Sauce.)

“We made a lot of mistakes,” he says, grinning. “But that band was a lot of fun, too.”

After Lucy Vincent’s dissolution, Ravin released his first solo record, Barbed Wire,, in 2008. He had only just separated from LV, and the record evidenced elements of his beach-bro songwriting past.

But something else was in the mix, too: a rustic, blue-collar edge was fraying the seams of his saccharine pop hooks.

“I had really gotten into James McMurtry, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt,” Ravin explains. “And that’s the kind of stuff I wanted to be writing.”

Ravin’s transition had its clunky moments, but in general he evolved slowly but surely. On his 2010 album Music From the Mason Jar,, released shortly after he joined Waylon Speed, he

took a boot-clad step in the right direction. Ravin followed that up in 2013 with a starkly beautiful semi-live album, Leathered, Weathered, Worn & Wiser, recorded in his home state of Maine.

Last year, with the aid of Future Fields’ Eric Maier and Jer Coons, Ravin released the excellent County Tracks. That record, which landed in this paper’s list of the best local albums of the year, seemed torn from the playbooks of fellow country-rock torchbearers Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton.

On Bonneville, Ravin again worked with Future Fields. But instead of playing every instru-

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Parms acknowledges in another of the book’s travelinspired pieces, “I had scaled enough mountains to know never to doubt the challenge of a climb or the breathtaking reward. So I approached the mountain

FROM LOST WAX What I remember most are the petri dishes she stole from the biology lab and kept in her dorm room. Like a curator, she filled them with insect parts: cicada wings, beetle backs, and fly legs — dried appendages like cellophane or tissuepaper jewels. She had worked out a system, her own web of wisdom.

Sealing our hand-rolled cigarettes with our tongues and pinching

the tail end, we laughed when she told us about Nabokov’s cabinet of insect genitalia. We studied the specimens scattered around her dorm room as we experimented with a selection of pills and powders, which we wiped from our fingertips along our gums, hypothesizing the various effects: which would keep us from drying out, which would keep us up the longest with the gentle buzzing in our chests, which might let us fly.

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with its three stations of prayer blessed by an intrepid and earnest inquiry into the nature of pilgrimage.” She could easily be advising readers to approach with the same attitude the switchbacking sentences that lead to her revelations.

Throughout this collection, Parms’ prose resists overt, straightforward and full-blown autobiographical content; she prefers to evoke intuitive and unexpected links among a range of topics. Her essay “On Puddling” showcases the poignancy and meaning that can be achieved from a multifaceted approach to narrating the loss of a friend. In it, Parms introduces information about different species of butterflies, as well as Nabokov, the lepidopterist/novelist who flew into exile; the college classmate who collected and classified insect parts; and the wing-dust-like powders that she and this friend ingested. All of this comes in a story of that girl, who died from a fall.

Within the book, Parms cites such diverse sources as philosophers, artists and late-night Johnny Carson TV show episodes. In “Still Life With Chair,” she integrates associations or references to the reality of an actual chair as compared to a representational chair in the paintings of van Gogh, Andrew Wyeth, Warhol and Kosuth. She includes the definition and etymology of the word “chair,” Plato’s theory of forms, excerpts from poems by Roethke and Neruda, and a mention of Thoreau’s cabin (with three chairs).

Additionally, “Still Life” contains remembered scenes that took place in Manhattan and Colorado alongside imagined events at the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, in a ballroom with gold chandeliers and in a gymnasium filled with streamers. Amid this consideration is a narrative in which the author recounts how she fell in love with her college boyfriend and then learned of the sudden, shocking death of another classmate and friend.

The human body — its vulnerability, fragility and exquisite beauty — is perhaps the most obvious theme of Parms’ collection. It’s evident in the early pages, when her father’s wrist smashing down on the table approximates a gavel, sounding the end of her parents’ marriage. It echoes through the accidental deaths of friends and perhaps explains Parms’ susceptibility to sculpture. “Every time I wander through a Greek and Roman sculpture court,” she writes, “I want to be disassembled: to have my arms up to my shoulders fall off as I’m taken from Florence to Pompeii, or maybe end up at the Metropolitan or the Louvre having lost my legs.

To be stolen, looted by strangers, and feel the tip of my nose, the cap of my knee chip and blow away.”

Lost Wax shows us Parms’ hard-won understanding that, at times, something beautiful must be forsaken for something even more beautiful.

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he title of Jericho Parms’ book, Lost Wax, might confound anyone removed from the art world. A hundred pages into this debut collection of 18 lyrical personal essays, a reader may still wonder, What is this wax, why is it lost and will she ever get it back? “‘Lost wax’ is a sculpture term,” a landscape painter recently informed this reviewer. “It’s something beautiful that’s made and then lost in the process of making something else that’s beautiful.”

Parms invokes the term in an eponymous essay, noting that many ancient Egyptian and Grecian sculptors fashioned their gods and heroes using this technique. She writes, “The heat draws the melted wax from the form and it becomes ‘lost,’ drained from the mold, leaving a cavity for the molten bronze so that the image before us, the smooth limbs and androgynous angles, is a replica of what once was.”

Eureka alert: Understanding the concept of lost wax will help inform a reader’s appreciation of these segmented and numbered essays that explore ideas about art history, identity and geography.

Parms pours her life experiences into a unique mold in each essay — growing up in her biracial, loving but ultimately broken childhood home; college years fraught with unexpected losses and self-destructive behaviors; and her extensive travels in early adulthood in search of art, culture and meaning.

Lost Wax is divided into four sections inspired by iconic sculptures: “Girl Looking at the Sole of her Foot,” invokes Degas’ famous dancer; “Daphne, Running” is a nod to classical figures housed at the Louvre; and “L’Eternelle idole” and “Caryatid Carrying Her Stone” refer to famous works by Rodin. Parms celebrates all of these at length, interspersing descriptions of their postures and contours with stories of (metaphorically and actually) traveling away from and back toward her New York City childhood.

The stasis of the sculptures serves as a counterpoint to her restlessness, for, as Parms attests, “the museum galleries are where I learned to reclaim myself. After years of incessant movement, I turn faithfully to the stone-solid silence of statuary, bow like a courtesan before its classical grace and refuse to feel alone.”

Evidence of her attempts to outrun loneliness and confusion permeate these essays, as Parms ricochets geographically, intellectually and textually. “On Grazing,” an essay from the third section, begins: “I used to collect things: rocks, minerals, artifacts and molds. That afternoon we ditched English lit and sociology to flee to the tracks where we hopped a train toward the southwest plains, only to hop off again somewhere — anywhere — to spoon beans from a can, sip whiskey from a canteen, and suckle and knead each other’s flesh because we were sweethearts and the world was alive.”

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WOOD CAPTURES AGE, PERSONALITY, RACE, GENDER AND STATURE

WITH CLEAR GESTURES. THEATER INFO The Syringa ree by Pamela Gien, directed by Kim Allen Bent, produced by Lost Nation Theate . Through Septembe 25: Thursday through Saturda , 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., at City Hall Auditorium in Montpelier. $20-30. lostnationtheater.org

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Wood a blank canvas that she fills with two dozen people.

Costume designer Whitney Chilton puts Wood in a simple shift dress over a white T-shirt. The dress fabric swirls and drapes restlessly, perfectly suiting Wood’s impulsive movement.

Lighting design by Thomas Gunn shows changes of mood and time. Melissa Troxler’s sound design is largely effective but sometimes needlessly literal, adding outside voices or sound effects when the text alone could tell the story. The music, researched by Bennett Shapiro and Kathleen Keenan, opens a window into the popular and ethnic sounds of South Africa.

The play moves apartheid from a cultural abstraction to the personal struggles of individuals, especially ones too young to understand racial segregation but fully open to the emotions it stirs. Because Elizabeth observes without commenting, Gien’s play never feels heavy-handed, yet it never shies away from a serious subject. The Syringa Tree doesn’t moralize; it reveals.

Wood is so physically and vocally agile that viewers have difficulty taking their eyes off her. But it’s her emotional range that distinguishes this performance, and her effulgent presence that leaves the viewer with an image of hope amid cultural despair. m

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stew of characters than stories, but meeting them through Elizabeth’s eyes is continually fascinating.

In making her protagonist 6 years old, playwright Pamela Gien has seized upon a powerful way to shatter apartheid. A child fundamentally can’t understand it, and that’s because it makes no sense. Elizabeth loves Salamina and likes to play with Moliseng by “covering her with kisses.”

The ethnic source of shame and discomfort she sees in adults is a puzzle to her.

Though Elizabeth has been taught that there’s something to fear, her naïveté leaves her oblivious to some threats and foolishly concerned with what’s actually benign. As we watch her explain the world to us, the play is designed to make the audience yearn to protect her, and to fear that forces far too large and inimical will harm her and those she loves.

The context is serious, but much of the play is humorous. Gien’s script is a tangy mix of sweet and sour, and Wood’s performance is so openhearted that her characters are easy to love and laugh with. A 6-year-old protagonist necessarily crosses

into cuteness, but the doses of treacle are mercifully small.

In the second act, as Elizabeth ages through school and motherhood, the earlier taut suspense of wondering how a young child will cope with loss shifts to a more abstract look at cultural change.

Wood brings powerful gifts to a role she originally performed as her college senior project in 2014 and last year at Lost Nation in a production lacking the technical finesse of the current version. Her facility with accents and a lithe physicality helps her define the characters. Wood captures age, personality, race, gender and stature with clear gestures that help us recognize a mother who regularly brings her right hand up to her cheek, a father who crosses his arms and a large pregnant woman with an unruly laugh, to pick a few.

Kim Allen Bent’s direction uses space and movement to make transitions, but he keeps the focus on the actor’s ability to make each moment new. Wood is wonderfully capable of revealing surprises that happen to both characters and audience.

When her young Elizabeth and Moliseng twirl and leap, Wood conveys such abandon that she carries the viewer into the unknown.

The Syringa Tree won the Obie Award for best play in 2001 and is solidly presented in Lost Nation’s production. Dan Corrigan’s scenic design is a simple construction that evokes the curving trunk of a tree and a childhood swing. The set gives

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n The Syringa Tree, a one-woman show playing at Lost Nation Theater, Courtney Wood whirls onto the stage and rivets the audience’s attention from her first remarks: a sweet but silly theory of fortune-telling by one’s fingernails.

A solo show often rests on virtuosity alone, without two or more actors to face each other to realize theater’s potential for conflict. The joy here is watching Wood create true exchanges between multiple characters. The confrontations are stylized because a single performer embodies them, but they’re nonetheless as powerful as multiple actors could make them.

Wood plays 24 roles and conjures up as many as five people onstage simultaneously, distinguishing each with pinpoint physical and vocal characteristics. Her pliability is intoxicating in itself, but what mesmerizes is her ability to capture the tension in each moment. The play’s circumstances contribute some suspense, but Wood intensifies the mood to give the audience a constant concern for the outcome.

The story is simple. Elizabeth, a white English girl, grows up in South Africa in the 1960s, during the darkest days of apartheid. Most of the play occurs when she’s a curious and active 6-year-old whose nanny, Salamina, affectionately calls her “monkey.”

Wood plays all the parts, but every character is seen through Elizabeth’s point of view. Her neighbor is an Afrikaans family, her nanny a Xhosa raising a child of her own who becomes a virtual sister to Elizabeth. Her father is a doctor, her mother a fretful housewife. Friends and workers represent three Bantu ethnic tribes, while a Dutch Reformed minister brings his notion of white privilege.

On an uncluttered stage, a tree is indicated by a handmade swing hanging from stylized branches. Beyond this abstract set are the townships where apartheid is playing out. Elizabeth runs, dances and lunges through the space with all the abandon of a spirited kid eager to learn about the world. And she’s engaging enough to make the audience want to learn with her.

The primary storyline involves the danger faced by Moliseng, the daughter of Elizabeth’s nanny, who lacks the papers she needs to avoid being taken from her mother by the police. The play is more a

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’m sitting on a love seat in the lounge of the University of Vermont’s philosophy department with a sumptuous picnic spread out in front of me on a folding table. There are three kinds of cheese, from Cabot’s populist Seriously Sharp cheddar to Jasper Hill’s spruce bark-wrapped, brine-washed Winnimere. There’s a summer sausage from Maple Wind Farm and mold-laced artisan salami from Virginia. I look lustfully at a pint of local plums, sweet as candy, waiting for the moment I can politely pop one into my mouth. I’m less certain about taking a swig from the gleaming white plastic bottle labeled “Soylent.”

My dining companions are Tyler Doggett and Mark Budolfson, both Princeton University grads and professors of philosophy. They are also both authors — with Anne Barnhill of the University of Pennsylvania — of the hefty volume that’s lying next to me, flipped open to an essay about vegetarianism.

The book, Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text With Readings, was released last month by Oxford University Press. Some blurbs call it the first of its kind; others, the best. I am visiting my alma mater to learn more. And to ask Doggett and Budolfson which of my snacks pass ethical muster.

Both professors are part of UVM’s innovative, and fairly new, food-systems program. In 2004, when I realized I wanted an interdisciplinary degree that wove together food-centric learning from various disciplines, I had to create it myself. Outside of the nutrition and food sciences and environmental sciences departments, very few classes had an explicit food angle. I did specialized projects in classes that brushed up against the topic (the Sociology of Pleasure, for instance, and Marketing, Advertising and the Consumer). I designed independent studies in food anthropology and

food ethics and wheedled faculty into working with me.

In 2010, food systems was chosen as one of three areas of inquiry — called “spires of excellence” — that would become the focus of a significant hiring push and a restructuring of the school’s academic offerings.

Seventy-eight faculty members who specialize in everything from maple syrup chemistry to back-to-the-land movements of the 20th century participate in the program.

According to the UVM website, “The University of Vermont is the only landgrant higher education institution in the United States to offer a complete range of Food Systems study, from [an] undergraduate [minor and major] through master’s and PhD levels.”

The food-ethics book grew out of a problem that is common in emerging academic fields: Students want to study a hot new topic and teachers want to teach it, but resources are hard to come by. In the case of ethics, Doggett explains, professors want to offer work that is well written and comprehensible by undergraduate students but that is also correct in its moral conclusions. By comparison, an astrophysics professor wouldn’t teach a formula, no matter how elegant, if it turned out to be wrong.

But unlike in mathematics, in which problems have discrete solutions, truths of food ethics are so complex that it’s rare to find widespread agreement about the conclusions. Some philosophers argue that keeping animals or eating meat is always wrong. Others think it’s fine to kill animals as long as they suffer as little as possible in the process. Still others think we should concern ourselves first with questions of human suffering — such as food insecurity and poor conditions for workers — and figure out the animal stuff later.

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Meals will be prepared with epoch-appropriate ingredients and techniques, and served in the same fashion.

The series begins on Sunday, October 2, with a deep dive into the mead-hall fare described in Beowulf.

Local drink historian ADAM KRAKOWSKI will select beverage pairings (i.e., meads and honey wines) for each course, while a UVM English expert will give a brief lecture and read from the book in Old English. Get info and tickets at isoledinnerclub@ gmail.com.

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As I flip through the pages, Budolfson cuts into a rye, spelt and wheat loaf from Running Stone Bread and lays out the slices on a plate. The loaf is made from freshly milled grain, much of it locally grown, and it’s nutritious. Ethical thumbs up. But toppings on the hearty bread are more involved. We have a delicately colored butter from Ploughgate Creamery, made with dairy from the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery; and a startlingly golden butter from Mountain Home Farm in Tunbridge. The latter is made with milk from its tiny herd, which is fed entirely on grass from the farm’s land.

The making of the former butter supports a whole host of northern Vermont farmers, but there’s no way to suss out their individual methods of livestock care, the health of their land or how they dispose of their manure. The selling of the second product only supports a single family, yet the Mountain Home herd management methodology is based on deeply considered best practices for the soil and the pasture, and it shows in the product’s rich tint. The color, as deep as that of egg yolks, indicates a high level of healthy beta-carotene. But at $20 a pound (compared to Cabot at $4.79 and Ploughgate at $13.98, at City Market/Onion River Co-op), it’s expensive.

Which butter is better? It depends on which ethicist you ask. One who advocates veganism would say neither. One who focuses on economic impacts might say Ploughgate.

One who is most concerned about the soil might say Mountain Home.

On the other hand, both Vermont spreads are better than trans-fatladen margarine.

If food ethics had a Facebook page, its relationship status would invariably be: “It’s complicated.” To sort out all of the relevant factors, a consumer needs to consider matters of animal rights, the environment, nutrition, various responsibilities that humans bear and, perhaps, even the role of deliciousness. It sounds like a lot, and it is.

But it’s crucial work, according to Vermont writer Barry Estabrook.

His hard-hitting Politics of the Plate blog is award winning, and he has authored a pair of books about the food system: Pig Tales and Tomatoland (the latter is excerpted in Food, Ethics, and Society).

“Now more than ever, how and what we eat can no longer be mindless,” Estabrook says. “We have to think through the implications … It’s incumbent upon people, when they’re making food choices, whether it’s at a restaurant or the supermarket, that they do so with the broader picture in mind.”

In philosophical terms, Estabrook is saying that consumers with the resources to do so have a moral responsibility to make thoughtful decisions about their food choices.

Compared to other countries with similar levels of wealth, he explains, we spend significantly less on sustenance. People who purchase high-end sporting equipment, gaming consoles or “designer jeans that have rips already put into them,” may nevertheless say that they “can’t afford” pork chops from a nearby farm, or sustainably harvested salmon, or local potatoes that cost $1.50 per pound in place of commodity potatoes that cost 50 cents per pound.

But the language of unaffordability is imprecise. If you’re not food insecure — as 14 percent of the American population is, according to Estabrook — and you have disposable income that is spent on luxuries, you could reallocate some of those funds. (Beer, even cheap beer, is a luxury, as is cable TV.) Choosing not to value ethical food is vastly different than being unable to purchase it for fear of going hungry or having insufficient money to pay the rent.

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ONION RIVER CO-OP, which pumped out rolls for up to 350 people per day.

When the businesses parted ways, Hartwell and Mizushima started up a cart that vends on the upper block of Church Street near Urban Outfitters (11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily). (City Market has yet to replace them.) On Monday, they opened a takeout kiosk in the Old North End, open

daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The duo hopes the customers they cultivated over the previous 14 years will have an easy time finding them in their pair of new locations, Hartwell says.

He also hopes that when customers enter the takeout kiosk, they’ll be excited to recognize the same white cooler that used to stand in

City Market’s meat and seafood department. “It’s like muscle memory,” he suggests.

That case will contain all the familiar sushi and rolls from the City Market concession, plus bento boxes designed with vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters in mind.

Mizushima and Hartwell plan to experiment with selling brewed green and barley teas — and, down the road, they’ll add a few Japanese grocery items.

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grocery-store slab of steak nestled on a Styrofoam tray and wrapped in plastic than to buy from a neighbor and face the fact that an animal met its death to provide your meal. And it’s easier to say, “I can’t afford local beef ” than it is to say, “I know that most cows sold in this country are raised in a confinement feeding operation and slaughtered under horrific conditions, yet I don’t care enough to stop eating them.” It’s also a pretty big ethical cop-out — and almost all of us do it.

In some instances, the rightness or wrongness of a decision goes far beyond the aforementioned butter battle. In February, Estabrook wrote a story about the Thai shrimp industry for the website Civil Eats. Nearly every paragraph contains a new horror, but the worst is this: “More than half of workers on Thai fishing boats … reported that they had seen fellow workers murdered while at sea.

Slaves too weak or too ill to work are often simply tossed overboard.”

Shrimp are delicious — whether tossed with pasta, garlic and butter or dipped into the glistening horseradish-and-ketchup concoction we call cocktail sauce. But is the sensual experience of popping the sweet and briny pink curls into your mouth ever worth a person’s life? Does reading this ruin your no-longer-innocent crustacean consumption? Now you might have to think about something unpleasant when you order shrimp dumplings with soy dipping sauce, or forgo them altogether. Does that make you feel a little bit angry?

When I visited Doggett’s freshmanlevel Food Ethics class (which is taught at different levels throughout the academic year), the students sometimes looked ill at ease. Perhaps it’s because they were wrestling with complex material. Or because they were thinking harder about the health of the hens behind the omelettes they just scarfed down in the dining hall. Some students are vegetarian or vegan, and their brows furrowed in anger when the topic of meat eating was on the table.

Doggett, in green-stocking feet, paced in front of the whiteboard, laying out an argument about whether or not it’s wrong to consume something that’s wrong to produce (e.g., chicken raised on a factory farm). “It’s OK if it’s uncomfortable,” he explained.

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products, and explains that the most stringent philosophers believe that as long as any humans are experiencing hunger, buying fancy food is unacceptable. To illuminate that point of view, Food, Ethics, and Society includes an essay by renowned Princeton professor Peter Singer (with whom Budolfson took classes) about Dumpster diving and freeganism. The thought gives me a pang of panic. I’m so responsible with my purchasing, I think, but I definitely eat some things for sheer pleasure.

Budolfson suspects that artisan products may be inherently unethical for this reason, and that’s why he had put out a few bottles of Soylent. The stuff is cheekily named for the dystopian 1973 film, Soylent Green, which stars Charlton Heston as a character who realizes that people are being

recycled into food rations. A soy-based meal replacement, Soylent’s website purports that it “is a new option for maintaining a balanced state of ideal nutrition, just like traditional food.”

And, at approximately $3 per serving, the stuff is affordable. We crack open the plastic bottles and sip the lightly vanilla-scented pabulum therein. “It’s soothing,” I comment, and both professors agree.

As I drink, I consider the implications of Soylent, and come to the conclusion that a lab-made soy beverage doesn’t meet my ethical standards, which revolve around creating healthy systems in which people value food for all of the things that it is and can be. It is the result of an agricultural system that feeds the soil and creates habitat for pollinators, a source of nutrition and medicine, a spark for joy and community connection.

None of us is pure — not even professors of philosophy — but that’s no reason not to try. “Inexpensive food is wrecking the environment, wrecking the soil; it’s driving the average farmworker in this country [to make] below-poverty wages,” says Estabrook. “Buying that cheap food is contributing to an ecological disaster and a human-rights disaster.”

But, he continues, there “are no hard-and-fast rules. It’s an incremental thing, a personal thing. It can be situational.”

If you are willing and able to spend the money, Estabrook adds, it’s as simple as this: Go to a grocery store, co-op, a farm stand or a farmers market and “buy the very best-tasting, highest-quality food you can, and you’ll be fine, ethically.”

I leave the philosophy building with the picked-over remnants of the picnic, including most of a bottle of Soylent. On the way home, I eat nearly all of the salami.

Disclosure: Suzanne Podhaizer is quoted in Food, Ethics, and Society and has been a guest lecturer in Tyler Doggett’s class.

Contact: podhaizer@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text With Readings by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson and Tyler Doggett, Oxford University Press, 672 pages. $59.95.

For more on this topic, including a food-ethics quiz, and to share your thoughts, visit the Bite Club blog at sevendaysvt.com.

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ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION #4C0775-12 AND HEARING 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 9, 2016, BSREP II CYPRESS MT LLC, 8343 Douglas Avenue, Dallas, TX 75225 filed application #4C0775-12 for a Project described as amending Condition #4 of Land Use Permit #4C0775-EB to state that the “gross leasable area leased to any one retail tenant shall not exceed 56,950 square feet.” ˛ e Project is located at 1355 Maple Tree Place in Williston, VT. ˛ is Project will be evaluated by the District #4 Environmental Commission in accordance with the 10 environmental criteria of 10 V.S.A., § 6086(a). ˛ e Commission intends to narrow the scope of the hearing to Act 250 Rule 34(E) unless that scope is expanded by the Commission at the hearing.

A public hearing is scheduled for October 19, 2016 at 8:30AM at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. ˛ e following persons or organizations may participate in the hearing for this project: 1. Statutory parties: ˛ e municipality, the municipal planning commission, the regional planning commission, any adjacent municipality, municipal planning commission or regional planning commission if the project lands are located on a town boundary, and affected state

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2. Adjoining property owners and others: May participate as parties to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the ten criteria.

3. Non-party participants: The district commission on its own motion or by petition, may allow others to participate in the hearing without being accorded party status.

The Applicant has r quested a partial waiver of notice to adjoining landowners, pursuant to Act 250 Rule 10(F).

The District Commissio has denied the waiver request based on the determination that the adjoining landowners whose notice was requested to be waived, reasonably could be affected by the proposed project and that serving notice on all the adjoining landowners does not constitute a significan administrative burden without corresponding public benefit If you wish further information regarding participation in this hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the address below before the date of the first hearin or prehearing. If you have

a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify this office at least se en days prior to the above hearing date.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate o Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or i there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting o this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Copies of the application and plans for this project are available for inspection by members of the public during regular working hours at the Williston Town Offices the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and th District #4 Environmental Office. The applicati can also be viewed at the Natural Resources Board web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number above.

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 19th day of September, 2015.

BY: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1294 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 2, 2016, Gardner & Sons Development Corp., (c/o Brad Gardner), P.O. Box 21, Colchester, VT 05446 filed application #4C129 for a project generally described as the development of a one lot, 6-unit PRD containing an existing duplex and constructing one triplex and one single family residence on the 2.16 acre lot. Th Project is located at 37 Birch Street in South Burlington, Vermont.

The District #4 Enviro mental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the South Burlington Town Office, Chittende County Regional Planning Commission Office, an the office listed belo .

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No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before October 3, 2016, a person notifies the Commissio 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 o Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or i there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting o 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 October 3, 2016.

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By: /s/Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC –>ORDINANCE 4.36 Sponsor: Councilor Mason; Ordinance Committee First reading: 06/27/16 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 09/12/16 Action: adopted Date: 09/12/16 Signed by mayor: Published: 09/21/16 Effective: 10/12/16 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 20, Moto Vehicles and Traffic, o

the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sec. 20-55, General prohibitions, thereof to read as follows: 20-55 General prohibitions. (a) As written. (b) As written. (c) As written. (d) As written. (e) No person shall leave idling for more than three (3) minutes any motor vehicle in any area of the city, except in the following instances: (1) Motors used to run refrigeration units may be left idling to permit uninterrupted refrigeration; (2) A motor vehicle may be left idling if necessary for the repair of that vehicle; (3) This provision shall not apply to motor vehicles which must be kept idling in order to install, maintain or repair equipment or infrastructure.

(4) This provision shall not apply in any situation in which the health or safety of a driver or passenger requires the idling of the vehicle, including, but not limited to, when idling is necessary to operate safety equipment such as windshield defrosters, and operation of the equipment is needed

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COMBINED NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS, CITY OF BURLINGTON & STATE OF VERMONT September 21, 2016 Mayor Miro Weinberger City of Burlington 149 Church Street Burlington, VT 05401 802-865-7272 Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development Lucy Leriche, Secretary of Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th Floor Montpelier, VT 05620 802-828-1357 These notices sha l satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by the City of Burlington and the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Commu-

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Request for Release of Funds On or about October 7, 2016, the City of Burlington will submit a request to HUD to release funds under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as amended; and the Agency will submit a request to HUD to release funds under the Economic Development Initiative (EDI)- Special Project Grants, as amended, to undertake a project known as Affordable Housing at Cambrian Rise for the purpose of creating affordable housing through the construction of up to 160 units of new, primarily affordable housing serving low and moderate income households. ˜ e project is located at 351 North Ave, Burlington (future address yet to be determined). ˜ e total estimated cost of the project is $40,000,000; approximately $245,000 of HOME Investment Partnership Program Funds, and approximately $400,000 of Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) Land Bank Loan Funds (revolved FFY09 and FFY10 HUD EDI Special Project Grant funding) for the acquisition of the site prior to the development and construction

costs. Project and/or tenant-based Section 8 rental assistance may be used for the proposed units. ˜ is project includes new construction and the buildings will be constructed using radon resistant construction methodologies. Postconstruction radon tests will be completed by a certified radon professional; additional mitigation will be required if results show elevated radon levels. No federal funds for development shall be committed prior to State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPO) approval of the project plans for new construction. A zoning change has been requested and is under consideration by the City to change the zoning for this site from its current Residential Medium Density- Waterfront (RM-W) zoning district to Neighborhood Activity Center (NAC) zoning district.˛ ˜ is project shall receive all applicable zoning permits.˛ All permit conditions shall be followed and all permits shall be closed out upon completion.

Project shall receive all applicable permits and a certificate of occupancy shall be obtained upon project completion. Project shall be in compliance with the approved Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Plan and Stormwater Management Plan. ACT 250 will apply to the entire PUD project at 351 North Avenue, of which this property is a part.˛ ACT 250 permit will be obtained and all conditions shall be met. All applicable, local, state and federal permits and approvals shall be obtained, all conditions shall be followed, and all permits shall be closed

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Agency prior to authorizPhase I Environmental ing the submission of 9/19/16 CW-VTCommercial-092116.indd 1:21 PM 1 Site Assessment study a request for release of shall be updated per funds. Comments must HUD requirements prior specify which Notice to the commitment of they are addressing—the funds.

Finding of No Significant Impact or the Request Finding of No Significant for the Release of Funds.

Impact Environmental Certifica˜ e City of Burlington tion and the Agency have determined that the ˜ e City of Burlington is project will have no certifying to HUD that significant impact on the the City of Burlington human environment. and Miro Weinberger in ˜ erefore, an Environhis official capacity as mental Impact StateMayor, and the Agency ment under the National is certifying to HUD that Environmental Policy Act the Agency and Lucy of 1969 (NEPA) is not reLeriche, in her official quired. Additional project capacity as Secretary of information is contained the VT Agency of Comin the Environmental merce and Community Review Record (ERR) Development, consent on file at the municipal to accept the jurisdiction office of the City of of the Federal Courts Burlington Community if an action is brought & Economic Developto enforce responsiment Office located at bilities in relation to the 149 Church Street, Room environmental review 32, Burlington, VT 05401 process and that these and may be examined or responsibilities have copied weekdays 8:30AM been satisfied. HUD’s apto 4:30PM, or at the proval of the certification Agency at One National satisfies its responsibiliLife Drive, Davis Building, ties under the National 6th Floor, Montpelier, Environmental Policy VT 05620, and may be Act and related laws and examined or copied Mon- authorities and allows day through Friday from the City of Burlington to 7:45AM to 4:30PM. use HOME funds and the Agency to use the VHCB Public Comments Land Bank Loan/HUD EDI Special Project Grant Any individual, group, Funds. or agency may submit written comments on Objections to Release of the ERR to the City of Funds Burlington regarding the use of HOME funds, Attn: HUD will accept an objecMayor Miro Weinberger, tion to its approval of the or to the Agency for the release of funds and the use of VHCB Land Bank City of Burlington’s and Loan/HUD EDI Special the Agency’s certification Project Grant Funds, for a period of fifteen Attn: Environmental Offi- days following the anticicer, to the corresponding pated submission date addresses listed above. or its actual receipt of All comments received the request (whichever

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Public Notice is hereby provided that the Waste Management & Prevention Division (WMPD) has received an administratively complete Certification Amendment Application (Application) from Casella Waste Management, Inc. for their transfer station facility located at 1496 Redmond Road, Williston, Vermont. ˜ e WMPD has prepared a draft Certification based on the Application. ˜ e amendment to the previously issued Waste Facility Certification includes an increase in the facility’s storage limitation for appliances and scrap metals.

˜ is Notice of Application has a public comment period lasting fourteen (14) days from the date of the latest newspaper publication. Based on tion was not executed by this duration and the the Certifying Officers, 9/19/16 1:23publication PM dates, the Mayor Miro Weinberger/ public comment period Lucy Luriche; (b) the ends on October 5, 2016.

City/Agency has omitted At the conclusion of the a step or failed to make comment period a final a decision or finding Certification will be isrequired by HUD regulasued without convening tions at 24 CFR part 58; a public informational (c) the grant recipient meeting; unless a writor other participants ten request for said in the development meeting and extension process have committed of the public comment funds, incurred costs or period, signed by either: undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR 25 residents of the municipality wherein Part 58 before approval the facility is located; by of a release of funds by the legislative body or the HUD; or (d) another planning commission of Federal agency acting the municipality wherein pursuant to 40 CFR Part the facility is located; 1504 has submitted a by a governing waste written finding that the management district, project is unsatisfactory municipal alliance, or refrom the standpoint of gional planning commisenvironmental quality. sion; or by an adjoining landowner or resident is Objections must be received by the Secretary prepared and submitted no later than 14 days afin accordance with the ter the date of the latest required procedures (24 newspaper publication.

CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed ˜ e Application is availto the US Department able for review at the of HUD – Boston Field Williston Town Clerk’s Office, Community office and at the WMPD Planning and Developoffice at 1 National Life ment, ˜ omas P. O’Neill, Drive – Davis 1, MontpeJr. Federal Building, 10 lier, Vermont, between Causeway Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02222- 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 1092. Potential objectors Monday through Friday. should contact the HUD Comments regarding the to verify the last day of application and written the objection period. requests to be placed on the mailing list should be NOTICE OF directed to: CERTIFICATION AMENDMENT Jeff Bourdeau (jeff.bourAPPLICATION deau@state.vt.us) Vermont Agency of Natu- Waste Management & Prevention Division ral Resources 1 National Life Drive – Department of EnvironDavis 1 mental Conservation Montpelier, Vermont Waste Management & 05620-3704 Prevention Division Phone: (802) 522-0131 NOTICE OF CERTIFICATION AMENDMENT NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE APPLICATION View Date: 10/06/16 Burlington Area Transfer Sale Date: 10/07/16 Station Casella Waste ManageLuis Santiago ment, Inc.

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ANDREW A. HARRIS A/K/A ANDREW ALBERT HARRIS AND DANIELLE M. HARRIS OCCUPANTS OF 278 LAKE STREET, ST. ALBANS, 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 March 2, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Andrew Albert Harris and Danielle M. Harris to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for ARK-LATEX Financial Services, LLC, d/b/a Benchmark Mortgage dated October 28, 2011 and recorded in Book 251 Page 493 of the land records of the City of St. Albans, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for ARK-LA-TEX Financial Services, LLC, d/b/a Benchmark Mortgage, its successor and assigns to Wells Fargo Bank, NA dated January 15, 2015 and recorded in Book 269 Page 1 of the land records of the City of St. Albans, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 278 Lake Street, St. Albans, Vermont on October 18, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Andrew A. Harris by Warranty Deed of Jada Burbo and Jason Payea dated October___, 2011 and recorded in Volume___, Page___ of the City of St. Albans Land Records.

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Jada Burbo and Jason Payea by Administrator’s Deed of Daniel S. Triggs, Administrator of the Goods, Chattels and Estate of James P. Callaghan dated 7/13/05 and recorded in Volume 195, Page 213 of the City of St. Albans Land Records and being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Jada Burbo and Jason Payea by Warranty Deed of Peter F. Rainville and Madonne P. Rainville dated February, 2005 and recorded in Volume 190, Page 405 of the City of St. Albans Land Records.

Being two parcel of land, together with all buildings thereon, located on Lake Street in the City of St. Albans. Said parcels are more particularly described as follows: Parcel Number 1: Being a lot of land together with all buildings thereon, known as 278 Lake Street in said City. Said lot has a frontage on Lake Street of 35 feet, more or less, and a depth of 110 feet, more or less.

Parcel Number 2: Being a wedge-shaped parcel of land located on the south side of said Lake Street and bounded as follows: Commencing in the south line of Lake Street at the northeasterly corner of land conveyed herein as Parcel Number 1; thence running easterly in the south line of Lake Street for the distance of two feet, more or less, thence turning and proceeding southwesterly to a point in the east line of said Parcel Number 1; thence northerly along the east line of parcel number 1 a distance of fifty-four feet, more or less, to the point or place of beginning.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. ˛ Terms˛of˛sale:˛Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. ˜ e balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, certified

TOWN OF JERICHO – SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4444, the Jericho Selectboard will hold a Public Hearing on

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GEOGRAPHIC AREA AFFECTED: These amen ments have the potential to affect all geographical areas of the Town.

Summary of Changes to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations: Section 112.B(2) (Agriculture and Silviculture), eliminate setback and building envelope; Section 202.B (Water Resources Overlay), gave administrative officer more discr tion; Section 203.C (Interpretation of District Boundaries), corrected typographical error; Section 213.A (Common District-Permitted Uses) clarified regulation Section 223.A (Village District-Permitted Uses), clarified regulation Section 233.A (Rural 3 District-Permitted Uses), clarified regulation Section 243.A (Rural 5 District-Permitted Uses), clarified regulation Section 251.A (Rural 10 District-Purpose), clarified regulation; Sectio 253.A (Rural 10 DistrictPermitted Uses) clarifie regulations; Section 262.B (Form Based Code Overlay-Applicability), corrected typographical error; Section 263.B (Planning and Design Standards-Building Form), corrected typographical error; Section 263.E (Planning and Design Standards-Design), corrected typographical error; Figure 7 (Transect Zone Summary Table), corrected typographical error; Section 282.A (Flood Hazard Overlay District-State and Federal Law), corrected typographical error; Section 283.A (Flood Hazard Overlay District-Exempt Uses), clarified regul tion; Section 288.A (Flood Hazard Overlay District-Application Requirements), corrected typographical error; Section 311.D (Basic Subdivision Design) corrected typographical error; Section 311.E (Basic Subdivision Design), eliminated need for building envelope; Section 311.F (Basic Subdivision Design), clarifie need for DRB approval for future development of deferred lots; Section 314.I (Planned Unit Development-Common

PLACE WHERE FULL TEXT MAY BE EXAMINED: The complete text of th amended regulations may be found at www. jerichoVT.gov under Documents and Forms > Planning and Zoning Documents. Alternatively, a full-text copy may be examined in the Planning and Zoning office, Jericho own Hall, 67 VT Route 15, Jericho, Vermont.

PERSON TO CONTACT: Additional information pertaining to these proposed amendments may be obtained by contacting Katherine Sonnick, Planning & Development Coordinator, at the Jericho Town Hall by calling (802) 899-2287 x 103 during regular offic hours.

Jericho Selectboard WESTFORD PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The estford Planning Commission hereby provides notice of a public hearing being held pursuant to Title 24, Section 4441 of the Vermont State Statues for the purpose of hearing public comments concerning: Proposed amendments to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations.

The public hearing ha been scheduled for: October 17, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Westford Town Office, 1713 V Route 128, Westford, Vermont.

Purpose: The Planning Commi sion is proposing to amend the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations for the following purposes: To correct 1) and clarify certain spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors that

Geographic Area Affected: Entire Town.

Outdoor Space), clarifie regulation; Section 321.C (10) (Vehicular AccessPre-Existing Driveways), gave DRB discretion to require driveway improvements; Section 321.C (11) (Vehicular Access-Rights-of-Way), established rights of way for roads and driveways; Section 321.D (Roads Serving New Development), clarifie regulation; Section 321.D (3) (Roads Serving New Development- Design and Construction Standards), clarified roa construction standards; Section 321.D (5) (Roads Serving New Development-Compatibility with Anticipated Traffic an Use), corrected typographical error; Section 321.D (7) (Roads Serving New DevelopmentIntersections), clarifie regulation; Section 321.D (11) (Roads Serving New DevelopmentEmergency Vehicle Turnouts), clarifie regulation; Section 328 (Water and Wastewater Systems), corrected typographical error; Section 418.A (Certificat of Occupancy), clarifie regulation; Section 421.A (1) (Site Plan ReviewApplicability) clarifie regulation; Section 421.A (3) and (4) (Site Plan Review-Applicability), corrected typographical errors; Section 433.A (2) (Deferred ApprovalApplicability), removed limitation on subdivision of deferred lot; Section 454.C (Enforcement Procedures-Action), corrected typographical error; Section 511.A (2) (Definitions-Accesso y Structure) clarifie regulation; Section 511.P (13) (Definitions-Privat Road) clarified regul tion; Section 511.P (14) (Definitions-Producti e Agriculture Land) clarified regulation; Sectio 511.R (12) (Definitions Roads), eliminated driveway from definitio of roads; Section 511.S (18) (Definitions-Stru ture, Accessory) clarifie regulation.

Location Where Full Text May be Examined: Copies of the full text of the proposed amendment to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations are available at the Westford Town Office 1713 VT Route 128, Westford, Vermont or may be viewed on the Town of Westford website at www.westfordvt.us Dated at Westford, Vermont this 21st day of September Gordon Gebauer, Westford Planning Commission Chair

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Bid Documents for a single Stipulated Sum contract will be available as of September 13th, 2016. To obtain Bid Documents, call or email project architect, John Alden at Scott + Partners Architecture, 802-879-

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0204244 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR.,WILLISTON, VT

Sealed bids will be accepted by the Owner up until 3:00pm on Thur day, September 29th, 2016 at which time they will be opened publicly and read aloud. Bids shall be delivered to the Town Clerk’s counter, at the Jericho Town Offices Faxed or Emailed bids will not be accepted.

LIST OF SECTION HEADINGS: The amendment include minor technical corrections to the following sections: Section 2, Definitions; Section 3 Zoning Districts; Section 4, Zoning Uses; Section 5, Dimensional Standards; Section 7, General Provisions, Section 9, Regulation of Telecommunications Towers and Facilities; Section 10: Permit Review and Procedures; Section 11, General Development Standards, and Section 13, Riverside Character Based Zoning. Ther have been additions related to Accessory Apartments, plat recording standards, Planned Unit Developments, and parking in front yards.

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0104447 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., WILLISTON, VT 05495, WILL BE SOLD ON SEPTEMBER 29TH 2016 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF STEPHANIE BILODEAU. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

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Address of Court: Chittenden County Probate Division P.O. Box 511 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 05402

Questions regarding the project may be directed to John Alden or Kevin Trout at Scott + Partners Architecture; 879-5153.

The Owner anticipate awarding the bid to the lowest responsible bidder on or about October 6th, 2016 at the regularly scheduled Selectboard meeting. Work may begin thereafter.

A Performance and Payment Bond will be required.

Construction shall occur this fall, commencing after the award is made, with a construction completion date of December 15, 2016.

The Owner rese ves the right to reject any and all bids.

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The prima y purpose of the proposed amendments is to clarify the existing development review and land use regulations, meet the requirements of state planning laws (24 VSA, Chapter 117), and to comply with the 2016 Jericho Comprehensive Town Plan.

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Publication Date: 9/21/16

A formal walk-through is scheduled for Tuesday, September 20th, 2016, at 10am. Bidders and vendors are strongly encouraged to attend.

Thursda , November 3, 2016 at 7:00 pm iwwwn the Jericho Town Hall, 67 VT Route 15, Jericho, Vermont, to hear public comment regarding proposed amendments to the Jericho Land Use and Development Regulations. This is the secon public hearing held by the Selectboard.

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To the creditors of Randi Tomczak late of Essex Junction.

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THE TOWN OF JERICHO (OWNER) IS SEEKING COMPETITIVE BIDS FROM QUALIFIED HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONTRACTORS for exterior rehabilitation improvements to the Town Office Building – 67 Vermont Route 15, Jericho, VT. Work generally consists of window replacement, carpentry repairs to wood window and building trim. The building is listed on the State Register of Historic Places.

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David Tomczak Executor/Administrator: 9 Colbert Street Essex Jct., VT 05452

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1073-7-16CNPR In re estate of Randi Tomczak.

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5153, jba@scottpartners. com All project materials will be emailed. Hard copies can be obtained by special request.

Viewing: Bid Documents will be available for viewing at the Jericho Town Offices, 67 ermont Route 15, Jericho, VT 05465, and Works in Progress, Farrell St. in South Burlington.

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DATED : September 13, 2016 By: /S/ Bozena Wysocki, Esq. Bozena Wysocki, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Date: 8/31/2016 /s/ David Tomczak

05495, WILL BE SOLD ON SEPTEMBER 29TH 2016 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF KELLIE FOLSOM. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

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

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Orvis is hiring seasonal retail sales professionals for our new, 4,000 sq. ft. Outlet Store in Essex Junction. Positions available:

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Snow Plow Operator An opening is available for an experienced part-time snow plow operator for the Town of Jericho on a seasonal basis. Work hours vary according to weather and other needs. Applicants must have a valid Vermont driver’s license (CDL license preferred) and pass a drug screening before starting.

Applicants must be available to report to work at any time, including nights, weekends and holidays. There is no set schedule or guaranteed hours. Applicants must be able to respond promptly and be willing to work various shifts and hours.

There are no benefits available to this position and the term of employment will last no longer than April 16th, 2017.

The starting hourly wage is $15.00 depending on qualifications.

A job application can be downloaded from our website at www.jerichovt.gov. They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 Vermont Route 15, Jericho, Monday –Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Completed applications can be submitted to Paula Carrier in person, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465.

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

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SALES ASSOCIATE Must have a flexible schedule and be available on weekends. We offer competitive pay and and a great environment. Retail experience is helpful but not necessary.

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Small law office seeks experienced administrative assistant for document preparation, filing, etc.

College degree, positive attitude, ability to complete tasks, attention to detail and solid computer skills, including Windows 10 and dropbox required.

10-20 hours per week, 3-4 mornings per week, $16 per hour to start.

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ReArch Company is a growing construction, real estate development and property management firm dedicated to generating real value for our clients through intellectual, analytical and proactive management. Our personnel exercise informed, reasoned and intuitive judgment along with entrepreneurial thinking in order to develop and implement strategies to best meet our client’s objectives, both programmatically and financially. We seek intelligent and motivated individuals to help us meet our mission of creating buildings and spaces of distinction and significance.

CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN

Project Foreman needed to assist Project Superintendent with managing mid to large commercial construction projects throughout New England.

QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must have 2 plus years’ experience overseeing projects exceeding $5,000,000 and preferable possess a college degree in an engineering or related field, or have an exceptional level of experience. In addition to extensive construction knowledge and a strong resume of successfully managed projects, applicants should also have a personable and courteous attitude towards their coworkers, the ability to collaborate in a positive and respectful manner with subcontractors and regulators, and above all a proactive approach to providing outstanding customer service.

Candidates that meet the above requirements should submit a cover letter, resume, salary requirements and list of projects with the project value to careers@rearchcompany.com.

ReArch Company will only consider email or postal mail submissions; absolutely no phone calls.

Please submit resume and cover letter including salary requirements to ReArch Company, LLC, Human Resources, 55 Community Drive, Suite 402, South Burlington, VT 05403 or email to careers@rearchcompany.com.

Resumes and cover letters that do not meet these qualifications and address complete education, work history and salary requirement will not be considered.

Only applicants chosen for interviews will be contacted.

The Town of Jericho is an equal opportunity employer.

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Payroll Processor/Client Service Representative

Accounts Receivable Specialist

PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team join our Client Service Department as a Payroll Processor/Clien Representative.

If you love chocolate and accounting, this may be your perfect blend of two passions! As a member of the accounting team, you will be responsible for invoicing, posting, processing credit applications, customer and sales rep communications, and a variety of administrative duties.

Qualified candidates will have strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a customer service mind-set. Must have at least two years’ experience in a similar position and working knowledge of basic bookkeeping and accounts receivable functions. Familiarity with MS Office and accounting software required. Monday-Friday 40 hours/week, with ability to work flexible hours, as needed. This position is currently located at our 750 Pine St., Burlington location, but will re-locate to Williston in November.

PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team

Our ClienttoService Representatives work closely with our client member join our Client Service Department as a Payroll Processor/ Client Service Representative. accurate payrolls utilizing various import methods including dat Excel worksheets, and time clock imports.

The ability Our Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to to perform produce accurate and payrolls utilizing various import methodsisincluding tasks efficiently manage ongoing projects necessary. At datais entry, Excel worksheets, and time clock imports. The ability to detail a must. perform multiple tasks efficiently and manage ongoing projects is necessary. Attention to detail is a must.

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Candidates must have prior payroll experience as well as custo Candidates must prior payroll experience as well as and organizatio experience and have possess strong communication customer service experience and possess strong communication Candidates should also have proven troubleshooting skills and and organizational skills. Candidates should also have proven adapt to new and changing Client Service troubleshooting skills and be abletechnology. to adapt to newOur and changing Representatives work in a team environment technology. Our Client Service Representatives work in a and team cubicle office

environment and cubicle office setting. Experience handling a large volume of telephone calls, well as having strong number skills Experience handling a as large volume of telephone calls, as well or prior payroll experience is required; working knowledge strong number skills or prior payroll experience of isthe required; wor “Evolution” payroll software is desirable. Experience with Windows knowledge of the “Evolution” payroll software is desirable.

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The Residence at Shelburne Bay is currently seeking to hire experienced Resident Care Assistants (RCAs), Licensed Nursing Assistants (LNAs) and Med-Techs to join our growing family. We look for compassionate, dedicated and hardworking individuals that will contribute to a positive experience of our staff and residents. Our residents are our family and our staff is part of that family.

Commitment to scheduled task and work is a must. We provide excellent training and continuous education for all of our staff. Other excellent benefits apply.

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ASSET MANAGER BURLINGTON

Currently we are seeking to fill the following openings: OVERNIGHTS

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3 PM – 7 PM; 3 PM – 9PM and 3PM – 11 PM - Monday through Sunday DAYS

7 AM – 3 PM - Saturday and Sunday This is an excellent opportunity to become a full time member of our residence and enjoy the great times providing care for our residents. All applicants who upon hire successfully complete the 90 day probation can be nominated for a promotion and be signed up for a Med-Tech training.

To apply, send your resume today by emailing Bianka LeGrand, Reflections Director at blegrand@residenceshelburnebay.com or call 802-985-9847 ext. 1139.

Join Housing Vermont’s Asset Management team in Burlington and help oversee a growing portfolio of more than 4000 residential rental apartments. The full-time Asset Manager position requires 2 years’ experience in real estate management. The Asset Manager will be responsible for all property and asset management issues from development feasibility, transitioning to operations and long-term operating success. The Asset Manager will work with ownership team on strategies to maintain operational health, provide technical support, assure best practices, review financial performance and report to investors. This position requires knowledge of multifamily real estate operations; property management; marketing; leasing; budgeting; financial analysis and compliance with financing covenants or regulatory agreements. Applicant must also have keen analytical skills and proven ability to readily recognize potential problems and develop and implement solutions. Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred. For a full position description, please email jobs@hvt.org.

Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements

by September 30 to: HOUSING VERMONT 100 BANK ST, STE 400, BURLINGTON VT 05401 ATTN: ERIC SCHMITT EMAIL: JOBS@HVT.ORG

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Leaps and Bounds is hiring

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Email resumes to krista@leapsvt.com or call 879-0130.

Senior Development Coordinator Easter Seals Vermont has an exciting opportunity for a Senior 1t-LeapsBounds050416.indd Development Coordinator. The person in this key position will plan, implement, promote and evaluate events and other fundraising vehicles conducted by and for our Vermont programs.

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This position requires a Bachelor's Degree and at least two (2) years of experience in events planning and management or an Associate's Degree with four (4) years of directly related experience. The ability to work a flexible schedule including nights and weekends is also required.

Valley Vista, an 80 bed chemical dependency and co-occurring treatment facility, is currently seeking full-time candidates for the following positions:

To complete an on-line application and submit your resume, please go to the Careers at Easter Seals page on our website and select “Senior Development Coordinator” in Berlin.

Primary Therapists at Valley Vista assume full responsibility for patient case management and clinical treatment service delivery. Functions and services include: assessment, comprehensive treatment planning, coordination and communication with managed care/ private insurance entities, discharge planning, and facilitation of individual and group therapy.

Bachelor's Degree from accredited college/university and one/two years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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BUILDING & EXHIBITS MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST

Case Manager/Primary Therapist

Therapist in Trainees 9/15/16 12:21 PM

ECHO seeks an experienced team player to provide building facilities and exhibit maintenance in a unique 36,000 square foot, software driven, LEED-certified aquarium and science center. This position provides a challenging, fast paced, diverse set of responsibilities that includes installing and maintaining high quality museum exhibits in addition to interior and exterior building maintenance. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience or be capable of learning building software systems, and experience in carpentry, plumbing, mechanical skills, light electrical and will be expected to troubleshoot facilities issues within a team setting and independently. The Facilities/Exhibit Maintenance position requires a detail-oriented, highly organized and self-motivated individual whose work is consistent with the institution’s mission of promoting and enhancing stewardship of the Lake Champlain Basin. For a full job description to to: echovt.org/jobs.html.

Primary Therapist Trainees at Valley Vista will, under enriched supervision, provide patient case management and clinical treatment service delivery. Functions and services include: assessment, comprehensive treatment planning, coordination and communication with managed care/private insurance entities, discharge planning, and facilitation of individual and group therapy. Bachelor's Degree from accredited college/university and one/two years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

RNs/LPNs We are seeking RNs and LPNs with a valid VT license for all shifts. Chemical dependency or psychiatric nursing experience a plus.

Recovery Aide Recovery Aides are responsible for monitoring patient activities and assisting in delivery of services. These positions are entry level positions, working with adolescents and adults recovering from addiction. No prior experience necessary. Knowledge of recovery is a plus.

We are seeking full-time, part-time and per diem Recovery Aides for all shifts. Additional compensation is offered for second and third shift.

Valley Vista offers a competitive compensation and benefit package, tuition reimbursement, as well as paid trainings.

Valley Vista is an EOE. To apply, please email resume to: jenny.gilman@vvista.net or mail to:

Jenny Gilman Valley Vista 23 Upper Plain Bradford, VT 05033

ECHO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes resumes from individuals who will contribute to our diversity. Send resume to: jobs@echovermont.org with Building & Exhibit Maintenance position in the subject line.

Apply by: Monday, October 3, 2016.

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

Shared Living Provider: Provide residential supports to an individual in your home. Generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training and supports are provided.

We are currently hiring for a variety of situations. For more information, contact Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118.

Community Inclusion Facilitators: Provide one on one inclusion supports to an individual with an intellectual disability or autism.

Help folks lead fulfilling lives, reach their goals and be productive members of their community. We currently have several positions with comprehensive benefit packages. Send your resume and cover letter to staff@ccs-vt.org.

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Ben & Jerry in Waterbury, VT is currently hiring for:

Manufacturing WorkerClass I/16000FJE

Operate packaging machinery and palletization systems in compliance with finished product specifications. Operate material handling equipment used to store and retrieve raw materials and finished product to adhere to production and transportation schedules. Requirements: High School diploma or GED equivalent. Six (6) months’ experience in manufacturing/production environment preferred; Able to work 8hrs or 12hrs work schedule on day or nights. Able to lift up to 50 lbs. Able to provide WorkKeys® test results is strongly preferred.

Maintenance Tech I/16000FMH

Maintain, monitor and repair facilities/manufacturing equipment to ensure their reliable and safe operation.

Requirements: High School diploma or GED equivalent.

Strong mechanical and fabrication skills to include Machining and Welding. Maintenance shop, using power tools, bench tools, and other various machinery. Able to work 8hrs or 12hrs work schedule on day or nights. Able to lift up to 50 lbs. Able to provide WorkKeys® testing results is strongly preferred.

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Positive attitude and a great work ethic and a clean driver’s license a must.

Knowledge of hydraulics, welding capabilities a plus.

Company offers paid vacations, 401k, health insurance and a great work environment.

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Apply today by visiting spherion.com Reference ID # S_5596 or call 802-864-5900 for details.

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Industry: Advertising Agency, Project Management Salary: Negotiable Job Duration: Full Time Job Location: Burlington, VT Job Requirements: Project Managers are the glue that keeps projects together.

You understand all the steps needed to manage a project from kickoff through completion. You have an eye for detail, know how to build schedules, manage budgets, and keep projects moving forward. This is what you do. You manage projects. If this sounds like you let’s talk.

Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business related field or equivalent. Captive insurance experience preferred.

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We have full and part time openings for the following positions

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Who is KSV? A digitally driven, integrated ad agency packed with smart, creative, passionate thinkers and doers. Based in Burlington, VT, with offices in NYC and RI, we’re experts at energy efficiency and sustainability marketing with almost 40 years’ experience taking risks to deliver successful innovation.

Apply for this position at jobs@ksvc.com please put “Project Manager” in the subject line. We’ll respond to all qualified candidates.

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A dynamic & professional environment, Vermont Technical College is currently seeking candidates for the following staff vacancies:

Staff Assistant, Dental Hygiene Clinic – Williston campus Part time, Nine months, August – May.

This is a part time nine (9) month position; $13.56/hr. not to exceed 28 hours per week. Basic functions will focus on coordinating and performing duties to assist the Vermont Tech Dental Hygiene clinic and key administrative support functions with a principal focus on key office reception functions as well as basic and specialized office /clinic support functions. Examples of specific duties include but not limited to: preparation and submission of Medicaid insurance claims, routine bookkeeping tasks using Eaglesoft software program, computer data entry and basic data retrieval tasks, reception and scheduling functions and mail distribution.

Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of non-medical companionship and home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly, cheerful, and dependable people. CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, errands, and more.

Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. No heavy lifting.

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Plan, coordinate and carry out one or more specialized functions of the Admissions office with primary focus on recruitment of students into our associate and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering, Computer Information Technology and Computer Software Engineering. Examples of specific duties include assist in developing and carrying out a marketing plan to attract students for IT majors, review applications and recommend action, collect and track enrollment data of this specific population, attend college fairs, transfer fairs high schools, etc. Ability to travel and work a flexible work schedule essential. Frequent nights and weekends as well as frequent and extensive in and out of state travel required.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in student personnel services or other appropriate discipline, master degree preferred plus 3-5 years of relevant higher education administration, including at least 2 years of admissions experience. Specialized knowledge and skills related to the IT/Software industry, good presentation and public speaking skills all essential. Valid Vermont driver’s license required.

Anticipated Starting Date: November 1, 2016.

For complete information on this position and others currently available, visit our website, vtc.edu.

To apply, please submit a mandatory Vermont Tech employment application with resume and cover letter to jobs@vtc.edu. The employment application is available on VTC web site: vtc.edu.

A fingerprint supported criminal background check is required for all full time and some part time positions.

Continued employment is contingent upon the results of this check.

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A full time permanent opening exists in Burlington.

The position provides organizational, technical, and public relations work as custodian of the records and papers of the court.

Requirements needed: H.S Diploma and 4 years of clerical experience in a legal setting. $17.73 per hour.

Franklin Central Supervisory Union in St. Albans, VT is seeking ASL fluent interpreters to support several students in our schools. Professional certification preferred but not required.

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HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR As Human Resource Director, you will be an integral member of our management team. You will help sustain and foster all that makes Gardener’s Supply a great place to work, and gives our team a key competitive advantage. You will be the voice and keeper of our company culture, and driver of our organizational development. You will oversee all aspects of Human Resources, including the development and administration of HR policies and programs, payroll, benefits, salary administration, recruitment, training, and workers’ compensation.

The right candidate will participate at a strategic level, and translate the corporate strategic business plan into HR strategic and operational plans. But, while we work hard, we also have fun, and we want someone with enthusiasm for the day to day quirks that make us special.

Interested? Please send your cover letter & resumé to Gardener’s Supply Company, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT 05401 or to jobs@gardeners.com.

Call 802-651-6837 for more info.

FedEx Ground is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer (Minorities/Females/Disability/ Veterans) committed to a diverse workforce.

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Gardener’s Supply Company, America’s leading catalog & web-based gardening company, is 100% employee-owned, and recognized as a leader and innovator in organizational design, company culture, and employee participation and engagement. We have been voted one of Vermont’s “Best Places to Work” and were recently awarded “Best in the World for Workers” from B Labs, the organizing body for B Corporations.

(We’re one of those, too!) We are looking for a new Human Resources Director to be a vital participant in our growth and development. This is an opportunity that does not come along very often!

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Retail Manager SCHIP’s Treasure is hiring a full-time manager for its nonprofit, boutique resale shop in Shelburne Village. Retail and management experience a must.

Send resume to Louise Piche, c/o SCHIP’s Treasure, 5404 Shelburne Rd. #1 Shelburne, VT 05482 or schipstore@ myfairpoint.net.

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Providing innovative mental health and educational services to Vermont’s children and families.

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

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Year round, full-time positions. Good wages and benefits. Pay negotiable with experience. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

Apply in person at: A.C. HATHORNE CO. 252 AVENUE C WILLISTON, VT 802-862-6473

Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications Job Description: Family Engagement Specialist

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Experienced professional sought to lead the Vermont Department of Tourism St. Albans EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE COUNSELOR & Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position SPECIAL PROGRAMS is designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage of Vermont in the national and international marketplace. The Director of Communications is responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business outreach plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department of Seeking energetic, strengths-based Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications and solution-focused clinician to Parents & Respite Providers viaFoster social networking tools.

This position is responsible fordynamic all tourism media join our team within the Employee Vermont relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted Assistance Program (EAP)! In this cuttingMake a difference in the life of a child! NFI is seeking Vermont homes to support children in edge demonstration project, you will assist story ideas to regional and national need. A sense of tourism humor, flexibility & willingness to work as a team are essential.

We are alsomedia; development of press Vermonters with a variety of economic, family, seeking weekend respite providers. If you are a VT home in the Greater Hartford Area or in familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; and Chittenden or Franklin counties, please contact Jodie Clarke at 802-658-3924 x 1028 or email workplace and/or mental health challenges, jodieclarke@nafi.com. support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives.

The Director increasing their access to valuable services will alsoResidential collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in theand resource through short-term counseling Counselor development of a Home proactive travel trade and businessdevelopment. recruitment plan. This Group The Group Home position Program of NFIwill Vermont is currently a full-time Residential Counselor. report toseeking the Commissioner of Tourism &Master’s Marketing. in social work, mental health Coordinators work directly with children & families involved with DCF, who experience multisystem issues, including substance abuse, domestic violence, & mental health challenges.

Responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating large meetings, teaming with community service providers, creating treatment plans through collaboration with DCF, & parent education.

We are looking for candidates with strong communication & documentation skills, who work well in a team setting. Experience with Family Time Coaching, Family Safety Planning & Family Group Conferencing preferred. Bachelor’s degree &/or two years’ experience in related field required. Please submit cover letter & resume to tessisimmons@nafi.com.

The Group Home is a residential program, which provides assessment & stabilization services to males and females, ages 13-18. Counselors provide supervision & support to the youth as well as provide a sense of safety & security to the youth. Job requirements: Superior interpersonal skills & ability to function well in a team atmosphere a must. Bachelor’s degree in social work or related field required. This is an entry level, full-time position that includes nights/weekends with an inclusive benefits package. Please e-mail cover letter & resume to: jenniferheintz@nafi.com..

counseling, or psychology is preferred with a minimum two years’ experience written skills;ofhave a BA in post-master’s degree.

Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work team player with polished diplomatic experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont andStrong Vermont’s tourism industry. skills, business mindset and clinical license preferred. Competitive salary and excellent

Counselorand a minimum of three references Resume,Residential writing samples should be benefits.

Diversion Program Vermont Agency of Commerce submittedHospital to Kitty Sweet, and Community Please contact Connie Gavin 802-951Development, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT4032 05620-0501.

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Location: Rutland, Status: Full time, state travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000.

The NFI Hospital Diversion Program is seeking a full time residential counselor, an awake overnight counselor & a relief awake overnight counselor. HDP is a short-term in-patient facility working with adolescents in psychiatric crisis. The program provides crisis stabilization, clinical consultation, individual treatment & discharge planning in a small, safe residential setting.

Counselors provide supervision & support to youth, as well as provide a sense of safety and security. Awake Overnight positions provide supervision and support to the youth during the sleeping hours, complete client intakes after-hours and perform administrative duties. Please e-mail resume & cover letter to: annepeterson@nafi.com.

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MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES Case Manager, Safe Recovery

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Provide case management and specialized intervention services to people who inject drugs, or who are at high risk of injection drug use. This includes assessment, service coordination, risk reduction knowledge and skill development. Minimum of high school diploma required. Hiring rate is $15/hour. Job ID# 3340

For an interview, please stop by our job fair on Thursday, September 29, 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Download our job application and bring the completed form to the job fair, along with 2 forms of ID. Starting pay $10.50 per hour. PLUS $150 incentive contingent on completing assignment.

50% employee discount offered to all Seasonal employees For more info, call 802-985-1634 6655 Shelburne Road, Shelburne jobs@vtbear.com www.vermontteddybear.com/employment

CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES Howard Center’s School Services Program currently has several full- and part-time School Services Clinician positions open throughout Chittenden County. Our program has long-standing partnerships with schools and uses a clinical social work model to offer therapeutic and case management services for students, families and teams. Strong supervisory support is a top priority for the leadership team. Applicants must have backgrounds in social work, psychology, or mental health counseling and must be willing/able to pursue licensure in social work or a related field. If you are interested in learning more, please apply through the Careers website.

First Call for Chittenden County is currently hiring for several full-time Supervisory positions in its newly integrated crisis program! Join the leadership team for the crisis program serving youth and adults across the county regardless of age or diagnosis. To find out more about these positions and to apply, please search “First Call for Chittenden County” on our Careers website.

Preschool Educator

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SENIOR DESIGNER We want you to join the BCA team and lead our creative design projects with a fresh approach that keeps our brand and materials looking dynamic and sharp. You will love this job if you are community-driven, a team player, and energized by a fast-paced work environment.

Candidates must be organized, detail-oriented, and care about supporting a vibrant arts community. Your experience should reveal that you will be able to create a range of design products that meet BCA’s expanding programming needs, go from concept to completion, and excel in cross platform digital media management like email marketing, website management, and social media. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a work environment that will never bore.

More info on BCA at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Apply online at burlingtonvt.gov/HR/jobs.

Application must include a cover letter, resume, and web link to a digital portfolio.

For accessibility information or alternative formats of this position description call (802) 865-7145. We are an equal opportunity employer and highly encourage women, minorities, and persons with disabilities to apply.

The Winooski Family Center is seeking to hire a Preschool Teacher to join our professional, caring and well-trained multidisciplinary team. If you believe that you would thrive in a team-based setting, are comfortable working in both a high-quality state and nationally accredited preschool classroom and a diverse community setting, are experienced in working with young children, and desire to partake in a 3:01 PM variety of learning opportunities, this position may be a great fit for you. Full-time position is responsible for providing a safe and developmentally appropriate preschool program in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies and procedures. The successful candidate will collaborate with the Winooski School District, Howard Center Early Childhood program and families as well as other partners. Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, elementary education or early childhood special education required. Must have a valid Vermont state educator’s license and experience and skills related to program implementation. Valid driver’s license and vehicle also required. Job ID# 3471

For more information, please visit howardcentercareers.org.

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20-plus-hours-per-week.

Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.

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Seasonal Positions We have immediate openings in our manufacturing department for long-term, full-time & part-time seasonal employment. We have other opportunities available throughout our company for days, early evening, and weekend shifts. No experience is necessary; we will train you.

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Exciting Social Worker Position Psychiatric Clinical Specialty Nurse Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital (VPCH), a 25 bed state-of-the-art,

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progressive facility providing excellent safe, The care in a recovery-oriented, of respectful environment has an immediate opening for a social worker to join For the people…the place…the possibilities. our multi-disciplinary clinical treatment team.

New Compensation Plan Implemented This position involves significant collaboration with hospital staff of other Vermont Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital (VPCH), a 25 bed statedisciplines, and Psychiatric community providers involved in the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive treatment plan for patients. of-the-art, progressive facility providing excellent care The in aideal Care Hospital candidate will have experience in both a hospital and community setting, and

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Are you an RN seeking new opportunities in an office setting? Are you creative? Would you enjoy the challenge of coordinating an innovative program? Telehealth programs are expanding in home health – become a member of the fastest growing provider sector in health care!

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CVHHH is seeking an RN to manage a Vermont TelAssurance Program. This 32-hour per week position is responsible for maximizing components of health care services for identified chronic and acute patients associated with specific Vermont physician practices. The aim is to improve clinical outcomes and healthcare experience by:

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For questions related to your application, please contact the Department of Human Resources, Recruitment Services, at 855-828-6700 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of Vermont offers an excellent total compensation package & is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Winooski Memorial Library

Our Youth Services Coordinator designs and delivers age-appropriate programming for youth year-round. This includes serving as the main point of contact for Winooski High School, UVM Service Learning Programs and other partnering agencies to successfully execute the Homework Help and Tutoring Program and other youth centered programming. This position also provides support and supervision to assigned volunteers.

For additional information please see the complete posting on winooskivt.org.

To apply, send City of Winooski Application to: Human Resources 27 West Allen Street Winooski, Vermont 05404 Or email to hr@winooskivt.org.

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Seeking a full time ophthalmic assistant or someone with a work history as a medical assistant. An ophthalmic assistant should already know ophthalmic terminology and know how to use the skills to complete a full eye exam. A candidate for training would be someone that has had work experience as a medical assistant with medical terminology, knows how to do a review of systems or patient history and has had a class in anatomy. This is a busy eye clinic with 4 Eye Dr.s, a pleasant work atmosphere and a small staff that works great as a team.

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INFORMATION AND REFERRAL CONTACT SPECIALISTS. Vermont 2-1-1 Information and Referral (I&R) Contact Specialists take incoming calls & texts and make follow-up calls on a scheduled basis. Contacts range from requests for simple information to complex cases with multiple needs requiring time spent in research, advocacy and crisis intervention. Duties include handling contacts pertaining to emergency housing for people in Vermont experiencing homelessness. All Contact Specialists have both individual and shared responsibility and accountability for delivering quality, professional information and referral, as well as 3:14 PM advocacy services. Ongoing training and extensive support will be provided.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field, an Associate’s Degree plus a minimum of one year’s experience working in health, human, or community services. Candidates with documented Customer Service, Contact Center experience may be considered in lieu of education.

Systems AnAlySt Come join our team! The Office of the Chancellor at the Vermont State Colleges has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Systems Analyst. We are a small group of talented problem-solvers in a fast-paced environment looking for a motivated team member to join us.

Responsible for developing computer programs to enhance the student administrative system, solve problems related to this environment and apply new computer technologies to meet the needs of the Vermont State Colleges. Knowledge of Programming languages including Ellucian’s Colleague Envision/Studio, Microsoft SQL Server and Sharepoint, T-SQL, C#, experience writing SQL queries and reports.

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Human Rights Commission Investigator Investigator conducts impartial investigations into complaints of discrimination in housing, public accommodations and state government employment and presents educational workshops.

Full job description at hrc.vermont.gov. Eligibility for bar admission in Vermont with a Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent Vermont four-year law study required. Demonstrated experience in housing discrimination, conducting investigations, dispute and conflict resolution, restorative justice and/or training a plus.

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The Vermont Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit organization headquartered in Montpelier, seeks a Director of Literacy Programs to develop and implement the Council’s humanitiesbased literacy programs. Relevant experience in literacy and program management, and Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree desirable.

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New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest Credit Union with 7 branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in service, convenience, and simplicity.

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Network Administrator This full time exempt position is located at Harvest Lane in the Information Technology department. As part of a team, the Network Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of Windows, VMWare and SAN infrastructure.

Additional accountabilities include the daily review of system logs, backup processes, email filters, anti-virus systems, Windows update services and for a Citrix Metaframe environment. The ultimate goal is to minimize unplanned service interruptions and loss of data or unauthorized access to information. This position will require an ability to manage projects and organize tasks so as to meet deadlines.

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Interested and qualified candidates should send a letter of interest (reflective of skills in written expression) highlighting qualifications and experience via our website, nefcu.com.

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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for a full-time Marketing and Development Manager of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival to join our team and be a part of northern New England’s premier performing arts center.

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL The Marketing and Development Manager of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival assists the festival’s Managing Director in marketing, development, logistical, and administrative aspects of the festival. The Marketing and Development Manager: supports sponsor relationships and membership programs; assists in developing the overall festival marketing plan and campaign design; manages and creates festival-related copy, print, and digital ads and print materials; and manages grass roots and social media marketing efforts, as well as the festival’s website and mobile app. This role manages seasonal staff and vendors and helps execute festival logistics. The ideal candidate will have a degree in marketing and 3-5 years of relevant experience, excellent planning, organizational, communication, and administrative skills, as well as experience in public relations, fundraising, and grant writing. The ability to maintain a flexible schedule with the ability to work long hours during crucial times is a must.

For a detailed job description and more information, visit our website at: flynncenter.org/about-us/employmentand-internship-opportunities.html Please submit application materials by September 30, 2016 to

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 or email hresources@flynncenter.org.

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Analyst/Programmer Named one of the Best Places to Work In Vermont for three years running, Union Mutual has been providing quality property and casualty insurance products for over 140 years. Our focus is on providing superior customer service “second to none,” and our employees are an integral part of our success as we strive to attract, challenge, and retain talented professionals.

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Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related IT major, solid exposure and knowledge of applications development methodology including Agile. Requires excellent communication skills and ability to work independently; designing, developing and deploying solutions, delivering projects on time with minimal supervision.

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The Operations Coordinator is responsible for logistics and planning activities for the Alchemy & Science Brands, which includes Traveler Beer Co, Angel City Brewery, Concrete Beach Brewery and Coney Island Brewing Company. The position will support many of the critical day-to-day elements for all brands, including inventory review and reporting, order planning/scheduling, and supporting local breweries with production planning and logistics management. This is a part-time hourly position with a maximum of 30 hours a week.

The Marketing Operations Manager is an integral player to all marketing activities for Alchemy & Science. This creative player will manage sourcing, purchasing, invoice reconciliation, and design work flow of all marketing and sales needs. This creative player will also act as liaison with the sales department, and our parent company, Boston Beer, on production needs, all while maintaining harmony in the Burlington World Headquarters of Alchemy & Science.

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The 3SquaresVT (SNAP) Outreach Coordinator will work to increase participation in 3SquaresVT among those in Vermont who are eligible. Responsible for telephone and onsite enrollments at network partners and community partner agencies and assisting with managing the flow of applications.

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Join our growing and vibrant organization of 130+ employees! We’re located in Maple Tree Place, Williston, Vermont. Come work in a conveniently located, fun and friendly atmosphere with a generous benefits package and competitive pay. Choice Strategies, a division of WageWorks, Inc., provides third party employee benefits administration to employers and insurance brokers nationwide. When you work at WageWorks, you help people live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. Learn more at choice-strategies.com.

Vermont State Housing Authority is seeking a mission-driven employee to administer the Authority’s statewide Shelter plus Care Program portfolio consisting of formerly homeless individuals, & their families, who receive case management and other services. Position is responsible for all aspects of administration/compliance and initial/ongoing eligibility for assistance. Position requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate & deal effectively with program participants and supportive services professionally & respectfully.

Position is based in Montpelier, Vermont & some travel is required. Position is Limited Service, subject to annual funding.

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(Up to 11 months): Starting pay rate is $15.00 per hour. On-the-job training and flexible scheduling provided! Do you have experience proving excellent customer service? Are you detail oriented and comfortable assisting customers over the phone? Are you skilled at asking the right questions, so that you can provide the best quality service? As a Member Service Representative, you’ll work in our call center, assisting members with questions relating to their employee health plans. You will welcome the member’s call, provide information and guidance, and end the call knowing that you have made the member happy! We’re looking for individuals who enjoy interacting with others, and who can ensure their work is accurate and complete. Qualifications: High School Diploma required, plus a knack and desire to provide top-notch customer service.

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HR, VSHA, 1Prospect St., Montpelier, VT 05602-3556.

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The Residence at Shelburne Bay, a premiere Level III hospitality-oriented senior living community is currently accepting applications for an LPN for 2nd shift; this would include every other weekend.

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Do you have a knack for detail? Do you enjoy working with and analyzing data and information? We are looking for detailed oriented individuals to process our customers’ employee benefits claims. If you have an aptitude for analyzing and drawing conclusions from data, and enjoy working in a supportive, yet fast paced environment, we have the right job for you! We provide on the job training, and cross train our analysts in our customer service area. Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED, plus experience working with, analyzing and/or drawing conclusions from detailed information. Ability to work with accuracy and confidentiality a must.

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Good verbal and written communication skills Be nurturing, caring, compassionate Strong work ethic Current Vermont LPN license Assisted Living experience preferred, however, will train the right candidate Must be able to pass nationwide criminal & VT state adult & child abuse background checks

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This is a unique opportunity to gain skills in an industrial kitchen setting, while also being directly linked to frontof-house service activities. This individual assists our chefs with a variety of food preparation and kitchen tasks.

During service, they will be responsible for partnering with cooks and servers to refresh the gourmet buffet station in our fine dining venue or in our satellite dining rooms.

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The Director of Purchasing and Merchandising leads the selection, purchasing, pricing, and placement of products throughout the Co-op’s stores in order to achieve our Global Ends. As a member of the Co-op’s Leadership Team, this new position will ensure the purchasing goals and objectives are meeting Member and customer expectations. Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field and minimum of 5 years’ grocery store retail, management, and project management experience required. For a full job description please visit our website.

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Applicants should have a master’s degree in a mental health field or comparable experience as well as experience with leading or implementing residentially based therapeutic models.

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We chase quality more than ethics, but the ethics often follow in a very direct way. You cannot find the quali y we’re looking for without transparency.

Anybody I’m buying from is very transparent about where the beans come from; you can often find out what the farmer was paid per pound. Our milk is from Sweet Rowen Farmstead [in West Glover]. They’re not organic, but they’re transparent about why they’re not organic — organic certification doesn’t allow for the use of antibiotics.

So even if a cow is sick, all you can do is isolate that cow from the herd and basically not treat it. And they couldn’t get behind that, and we’re OK with that.

So there’s that transparency.

When I make something, I ask myself: “Is it affordable? Is it nourishing? Is it helping the Earth or ripping from the Earth?” With ingredients, I ask, “What does my community have, and how can I use it?” rather than saying, “I need this; where can I get it?” I fry my non-vegan doughnuts in lard when farms are slaughtering and lard is in excess. But there’s seasonality to that. Other times, I fry in palm oil that was responsibly grown, which sustains communities in Africa. Most of the root veggies I use are seconds — that allows me to get a local, organic product at a conventional price point. I’m making food that people give to their children. It’s a doughnut: It’s supposed to bring joy, so I don’t want there to be poison in it.

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Pitchfork Farm, Burlington Rob Rock, co-owner One thing that got me into farming was that it didn’t seem right to me that industrial factory farms used and abused their labor force. Pitchfork Farm is such a small business that working here is a lot like a summer camp — we have a lot of fun, and we try to teach people as much as we can.

TACOS El Cortijo, Burlington Phillip Clayton, chef-partner We think of [ethics] from the perspective of our entire business — we want to create a great employment experience, to source from producers who work ethics into their operation, and to [provide] offerings that are healthful for our guests. Each taco starts with [a] local organic masa tortilla, and we top it with ethically raised local meats and produce. It’s healthy food, and it’s a busy little restaurant that provides a great work experience. So it’s a trifecta of ethics right there in one little taco.

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We feed our cows only grass, and we use intensive rotational grazing. Moving our cows to different small paddocks every 12 hours mimics the action of large herbivores on the plains, and it’s fantastic for the cows. They li e outside, and they’re eating what they’re born to eat — our cows live fi e times longer than conventional dairy cows, and our vet bills are low. And it makes better butter because the forage increases the [milk’s] vitamin content and omega-3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids, which fight cancer and ha e really great health benefits. It sequesters carbon, builds soil and naturally filters water. We’re supporting pollinators and wildlife habitat. It eliminates the need for pesticides and herbicides and chemical fertilizers. We’re making our products more profitable y incurring fewer overhead expenses. And more of our money is circulating in the local economy, because we’re not buying midwestern grain.

every little bit helps. It’s the same philosophy with offering paid time off to our staff. These things are reflected in our pricing a tiny bit, but our customer base understands that we’re trying to do more for sustainability and the environment and workplace policy issues.

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LIFE DRAWING: Pencils fly as a model inspires artists to create. Bring personal materials. ° e Front, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 839-5349.

PIPE CLASSIC 11: Glassblowers compete in a weeklong celebration of glass art. ° e Bern Gallery, Burlington. Free; $40 for judges’ passes. Info, pipeclassic@gmail.com.

business

KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising and communications brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free.

Info, 864-4067.

TERRY EHRICH AWARD CEREMONY & DINNER: Area professionals network with Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility members over gourmet fare while recognizing Paul Millman of Chroma Technology. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 6-8:30 p.m. $65-85. Info, 862-8347.

community

CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal and open discussion. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 540-8300.

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70’S THROWBACK PARTY: Merrymakers don platform shoes and bust out their disco moves to celebrate Hilton Burlington’s 40th birthday. A prize rewards the best-dressed guest. Hilton Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12-20. Info, 863-3489.

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HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: Ride in style while learning fun facts about the Queen City on themed tours exploring history, brew culture and even haunted houses. See trolleytoursvt.com for details. 1 College St., trolley stop, Burlington, 10 a.m., noon, and 2 & 6 p.m. $8-18; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 497-0091.

VIDEO SERIES: Leading Christian voices discuss topics of religion and faith in an honest and approachable manner. Peru Community Church, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 518-643-8641.

WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: Giddyap! Visitors explore the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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CINEMA CASUALTIES: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES’: ° e hockey-masked murderer strikes again in this 1986 slasher flick. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

‘FROM THIS DAY FORWARD’: Director Sharon Shattuck examines the bond between her mother and her female-identifying father in this heartfelt 2015 documentary. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

MOVING PICTURES: FILMS ABOUT IMMIGRATION: Film fanatics take in tales of uprooted people. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU’: One of the most influential figures in television comes into focus in this 2016 documentary. A Skype conversation with Lear follows the screening. Town Hall ° eater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 382-9222.

‘SAGRADA: THE MYSTERY OF CREATION’: Shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series, a documentary gives viewers a detailed look at Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, adfilmseries@ gmail.com.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: Cinephiles get a sneak peek at flicks from this year’s famed Colorado film festival. See hop.dartmouth.edu for details.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. $6-75. Info, 603-646-2422.

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COMMUNITY DINNER: ° e Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community and the City Manager Search Committee invite neighbors to link up over a shared meal. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

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MANUFACTURED IN VERMONT: A business-tobusiness trade show and conference connects makers with contractors for enhanced supply chain opportunities. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3443.

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Just as sure as the leaves change from green to red, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra embarks on its yearly fall tour. Classical music lovers across the state can soak up the sweet sounds of works by Mozart, Aaron Copland, Alexander Borodin and a commissioned piece by Norwich-born

composer Zach Sheets. In a unique pairing under the direction of conductor Anthony Princiotti, American composer Copland’s piece “Quiet City” features both solo trumpet and English horn.

The Made in Vermont Statewide Tour hits all the right notes this week in Johnson, Vergennes, Derby Line and Castleton.

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Want to improve your cognitive performance, creative skills or just general well-being? Mindfulness practice may be the answer. As the keynote speaker at this year’s Clifford Symposium at Middlebury College, neuroscientist Amishi Jha suggests that CLIFFORD awareness of the present moment can boost SYMPOSIUM ° ursday, mood, memory and attention. Centered on the September 22, theme “Fully Present: The Art and Science of 12:15 p.m.; Friday, Mindful Engagement,” this annual conference September 23, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., takes a close-up look at how mindfulness can impact the local community and cultivate a more and Saturday, September 24, 8:30 contemplative culture. Meditative activities a.m., at McCardell such as yoga, aikido and qi gong, talks, panel Bicentennial Hall, discussions, a film screening, and more complete Middlebury College.

Free. Info, 443-3168. this meeting of the minds. middlebury.edu

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR Friday, September 23, 7:30 p.m., at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College; Saturday, September 24, 7:30 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House; Sunday, September 25, 4 p.m., at Haskell Free Library & Opera House in Derby Line; and Wednesday, September 28, 7 p.m., at Fine Arts Center, Castleton University. See website for additional dates. $10-25; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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Back to the Future If you find yourself in Springfield this weekend, you may feel as though you’ve traveled back in time — or to the future. For the second year, fans of the Victorian-futuristic aesthetic converge for the Springfield Steampunk Festival. Inspired by the fantasy worlds devised by turn-of-thecentury writers such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, devotees come clad in corsets, top hats, pocket watches and goggles for everything from vendors to parlor games to a burlesque show and more. Live music by Psyche Corporation, the King’s Busketeers and others threads through the three-day gathering, and a talk by steampunk authority Bruce Rosenbaum is a can’t-miss event.

SPRINGFIELD STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL Friday, September 23, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Saturday, September 24, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sunday, September 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Hartness House in Springfield. $8-65; free for kids 8 and under; free for all on Friday; additional cost for some activities.

Info, steampunksocietyvt@gmail.com. springfieldvtsteampunkfest.com

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In a time when much of what we eat is processed, packaged and placed on a grocery-store shelf, it’s easy to forget where our food comes from. Burlington-area gourmands get back to basics at the Coop Food Fest, hosted by City Market/Onion River Co-op. More than 40 farmers and producers set up shop at Union Station to connect with customers and offer a cornucopia of samples — for starters, think fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, cider, kombucha, coffee, tea, baked goods, soaps and tinctures. With live acoustic music by Hard Scrabble, face painting and chair massages, browsing for food never felt so good.

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PAJAMA STORY TIME: Tykes cuddle up in PJs for captivating tales, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

STORY TIME: Little lit lovers ages 2 through 5 are introduced to the wonderful world of books.

Richmond Free Library, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into fun activities for tots up to age 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

TODDLER TIME: Puzzles, puppets, stories and art supplies entertain kiddos ages 4 and under. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

EXPLORING HERBS THROUGH THE SENSES: USING TASTE, SMELL, INTUITION & MORE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF PLANTS: Herbal enthusiasts tap into the power of plants with help from VCIH clinical intern Nick Cavanaugh. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; free for VCIH students. Info, 224-7100.

BEGINNER RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Learn the basics of the Eastern Slavic tongue.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-6:45 p.m. Free.

Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees absorb Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 472-6694.

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Fine-tune your ability to dialogue in a nonnative language. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:457:30 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Students get pumped with a fun, varied outdoor training session.

Rain location: Middlebury Municipal Gym. Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: Give your brain a break at a midweek “om” session followed by tea and conversation.

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, milarepa@milarepacenter.org.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: Greet the sun with a grounding and energizing class for all levels. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

NIA WITH LINDA: Eclectic music and movements drawn from healing, martial and dance arts propel an animated barefoot workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $14; free for first-timers.

Info, 372-1721.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensi y physical-fitness program. No th End Studio B, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

TAI CHI FOR ALL: Shaina Levee instructs attendees wearing loose, comfy clothes in moving

LEGAL & FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: Folks prepare for the future with an overview of wills, insurance and powers of attorney. Tha er House, Burlington, 1-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-272-3900.

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EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: Beginners and longtime practitioners alike improve balance, posture and coordination through the Chinese martial art. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 862-8866.

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EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Guided practice and group conversation with Yushin Sola cultivate well-being. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7:308:30 p.m. $14. Info, 299-9531.

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FREE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS: Technology for Tomorrow teachers instruct trainees on topics such as Google Drive and iCloud.

South Burlington Community Library, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister.

Info, 448-0595.

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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS TOURNAMENT: All hands are on deck as competitors battle for bucks in an epic rock paper scissors session. Proceeds benefit ANEW Place. Burlington International Airport, South Burlington, check-in, 6 p.m.; dueling, 6:30 p.m. $15; free for spectators. Info, 862-9879.

ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING SERIES: An open discussion hosted by Eckankar pushes open-minded seekers to examine their nighttime visions.

Eckankar Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

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

CONSTITUTION DAY: Patriotic people get a history lesson during a panel presentation providing a basic overview of the United States constitution. Vermont Superior Court, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2020.

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VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — think produce, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty products — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaa . Depot Park, Rutland, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.

ZUMBA: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon for a l experience levels. Vergennes Opera House, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

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VERMONT BEER WEEK: Suds lovers sip their way through the state during 10 days of tasting events celebrating craft brew culture. See vermontbeerweek.com for details. Various locations statewide.

Prices vary. Info, vtbw@vermontbeerweek.com.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: Draw in the good vibrations of gongs, bowls and didgeridoos — a relaxing sonic massage to get you through the week. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 510-697-7790.

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INTRO TO BAKING WITH NATURAL SOURDOUGH: Brotbakery’s Heike Meyer breaks down the steps of making naturally leavened loaves with a fermented culture. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9753.

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Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

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GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Pupils improve their speaking and grammar mastery.

Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

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COMMUNITY FORUM: MEET THE CANDIDATES: Community members make their voices heard when Pride Center of Vermont executive director candidate Nancy Vogele responds to questions.

Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-7812.

music

DAL’OUNA ENSEMBLE: A dynamic fusion of Palestinian Arab folk, classical, jazz and world sounds has audience members in awe. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

SONG CIRCLE: Music lovers congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations.

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QUEERING HEALING: RECLAMATION, RESISTANCE & TRANSFORMATION: Guest scholar Toi Scott summons strategies for weaving anti-racist and anti-colonial framework into healing practices and daily life. Clockhouse, Goddard College, Plainfield, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 800-468-4888.

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FIGURE DRAWING: Participants interpret the poses of a live model. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 6-8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 775-0062.

PIPE CLASSIC 11: See WED.21.

business

MARKETING ON A SHOESTRING: Enterprisers learn to reach potential customers through the right message and the right media. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 4:30-6:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

BURLINGTON WALK/BIKE COUNCIL MEETING: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians.

Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-9572.

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Residents chew the fat over the values of space and community growth.

The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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BURLINGTON HASH HOUSE HARRIERS: Beer hounds of legal age earn sips with an invigorating jog and a high-impact game of hide-and-seek. See burlingtonhash.com for details. Various Burlington locations, 6:30-9 p.m. $5; free for first-timers. Info, bh3@burlingtonhash.com.

CLIFFORD SYMPOSIUM: The theme “Fu ly Present: The A t and Science of Mindful Engagement” guides a three-day exploration into the creation of a contemplative culture. See calendar spotlight.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com for details. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $3; $50 for season pass. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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BILL TORREY: The ermont native leads listeners on a journey into his family’s rugged heritage in “Logger Turns Storyteller.” Essex Memorial Hall, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4088.

HAVE YOU HAD A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE?: Curious minds engage in dialogue to explore pastlife recall, out-of-body encounters, dreams and more. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

NEIL KAMMANN: Ideas flow during a discussion of the state’s watersheds. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, leslie.kanat@jsc.edu.

SANDY TOLAN: Life informs literature in Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Lan , in which the author tells of Ramzi Aburedwan’s upbringing in a Palestinian refugee camp and his transformation into a skilled musician. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

theater

‘MOTHERSTRUCK!’: Performance poet Staceyann Chin leads audience members along her path to motherhood in her solo show directed by Cynthia Nixon. Moore Theate , Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $22.5025. Info, 603-646-2422.

words

BOOK DISCUSSION: Lit lovers take a closer look at Louise Penny’s A Great Reckoning. Phoenix Books Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078.

THE WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: CHAPTER FOCUS: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members.

110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

WRITING CIRCLE: Prompts flow into a 30-minut free write and sharing opportunities in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

BOOKBINDING: Amy Cook facilitates the construction of one-of-a-kind hand-sewn pads for journaling or sketching. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $23. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.

dance

CONTEMPORARY DANCE CLASS: Instruction for individuals of varying ability levels is tailored to each mover’s unique style. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5; free for first-timers. Info, 863-6713.

environment

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE BIKE TOUR: A sevenmile group cycling excursion highlights rain gardens, permeable paving surfaces, green roofs and gravel wetlands. Local Motion, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-2514.

TAROT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: Contemporary artist James Leonard invites eco-conscious individuals into his hand-sewn tent for climate change divinatory readings. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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AUTUMN EQUINOX LABYRINTH WALK: Community members mark the changing season with a guided meditative trek through a maze-like pattern. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5030.

BARK & BREW: Pups romp around the HSCC play yard while craft suds quench pet owners’ thirst.

Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 862-0135.

DANCE, PAINT, WRITE: DROP-IN: Teens and adults create, connect, heal and grow through self-guided movement and art set to music. Expressive Arts Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20; free for first-timers.

Info, 343-8172.

EXPLORING REPATRIATION: Archaeology aficiona dos lay their eyes on artifacts requested to be repatriated by the Chickasaw Nation and the Cheyenne River Sioux and Abenaki tribes. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

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fairs & festivals

OKTOBERFEST VERMONT: A Bavarian-themed festival comes complete with dozens of brewers, local eats, games, music and the Lederhosen 5K. See oktoberfestvermont.com for details. Waterfront Park, Burlington. $35 includes a glass and 15 tasting tickets; free for Harvest Day Celebration; additional cost for some activities. Info, oktoberfestvermont.com.

film

‘ALL OF ME’: Vermont filmmaker Bess O’brien turns her lens toward women, girls and boys struggling with eating disorders. Community College of Vermont, Winooski, 7 p.m. $7-12. Info, 357-4616.

‘EMBRACE’: Taryn Brumfitts documentary holds a mirror up to society’s role in body-image issues among women. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $11. Info, 373-1058.

‘INDIVISIBLE’: Love bridges borders in director Hillary Linder’s documentary about families separated by deportation. Linder answers questions after the screening. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, refreshments, 6 p.m.; screening, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See WED.21.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Gourmands rewind to when farm-to-table was a reality rather than a luxury in a two-mile tour of the Queen City featuring snack stops at fi e restaurants. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $48; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

COCKTAIL PARTY: Themed be erages please palates at a weekly sipping session complete with shuffleboard. Stonecutter Spirits, Middlebu y, noon-8 p.m. Cost of drinks; BYO food. Info, 388-3000.

VERMONT BEER WEEK: See WED.21.

games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate!

Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ king. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 324-1143.

health & fitness

A CONVERSATION WITH JON KABAT-ZINN: Audience members open their minds to the benefits of meditation practices in mainstream medicine, psychology and society. Room 325, Old Mill Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 656-9266.

FOOT-CARE CLINIC: Nurses from Franklin County Home Health Agency help patients care for their tootsies. Call for details. Various Franklin County locations. $20; preregister. Info, 527-7531.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Seekers clear their heads, finding inspiration and creativi y. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

kids

PLAINFIELD PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Tykes ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 454-8504.

TEA & BRISTLES KIDS: Potential Picassos express themselves at a glow-in-the-dark painting party.

Fairfax Community Library, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

YOGA FOR KIDS: Children ages 2 through 5 strike a pose to improve balance and flexibili y. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

language

FRENCH THURSDAY SOCIAL HOUR: Francophiles fine-tune their French-language con ersation skills over cocktails. Bar, Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $4; free for Alliance Française members. Info, info@aflc .org.

Saturday, October 1, 7:30 pm Barre Opera House NFP Rock of Ages Valsangiacomo, Detora & McQuesten

“The world’s top Michael Jackson tribute band ... can’t beat it!” - The NY Daily News

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music

LVL UP: The New York foursome serves up lo-fi rock songs from Return to Love. Eskimeaux open.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:20 p.m. $12-14. Info, 540-0406.

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politics

GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FORUM ON WOMEN’S ISSUES: Those running for office la out their ideas and platforms at a public assembly moderated by VTDigger.org’s Anne Galloway.

Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-881-1561.

seminars

FALL PREVENTION WORKSHOP: In recognition of Falls Prevention Awareness Day, Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice physical therapists promote practices for getting around safely.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1:30-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 262-6284.

sports

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: Veterans and newbies lace up for practices and games on mixed-gender teams. Bring personal cleats, a mouth guard and a water bottle. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

talks

MARK TIMNEY: Taking aim at firearm mythol ogy, the speaker sounds off in “Off Target: What Hollywood, Journalists and Shooters Get Wrong About Guns.” Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3945

RETIREMENT SALE! Stowe’s #1 Jeweler Closing After 34 Years!

10-60% OFF Everything in Stock!

OMID SAFI: The professor theorizes a compassion ate view of social justice from the Islamic tradition in “Racism, Islamophobia and Empire: A New Understanding of Islam, Rooted in Social Justice, Gender Equality and Religious/Ethnic Pluralism.”

Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, susan.comerford@uvm.edu.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: London’s beggars will disrupt the upcoming coronation if police don’t arrest the man who secretly married a gangster’s daughter in a broadcast production of Threepenny Opera. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 2 & 7 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1625. Info, 748-2600.

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Saturdays at 11am. Free. All Ages.

September THU 22 7pm

DR. CARDY RAPER: AN AMERICAN HARVEST

THU 29 7pm

LAURIE MCCAMMON: ENOUGH!

Open 10am-5pm Closed Sunday & Tuesday 70 Pond Street Stowe Village 802.253.7000 stowegems.com

Reflections on how one family moved from dirt-poor farming to a better life in the early 1900s.

Discover how your own never-enough thinking has been limiting you.

October SAT 1 9am9pm

12-HOUR COMICS DAY

TUE 4 7pm

MARY FILLMORE: AN ADDRESS IN AMSTERDAM

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theater

‘FUDDY MEERS’: The Castleton Uni ersity Department of Theater kicks o f the season with David Lindsay-Abaire’s comical trip through the mind of a young amnesiac. Casella Theate , Castleton University, 7 p.m. $7-12. Info, 468-1119.

presents

A fun and possibly grueling challenge.

Details at phoenixbooks.biz. Free.

Book Launch! A story of courage during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.

BILL TORREY: THE TA TA WEENIE CLUB

Book launch! Travel back to an era before car seats, airbags & childproof caps.

Burlington events are ticketed unless otherwise indicated. Your $3 ticket comes with a coupon for $5 off the featured book!

AT ESSEX WHOLE BOOK APPROACH STORYTIME

Saturdays. Free. All Ages.

1 pm on 9/24. 11 am beginning in October.

191 Bank Street, Downtown Burlington • 802.448.3350 21 Essex Way, Essex • 802.872.7111 2 Center Street, Rutland • 802.855.8078 58 Common Street, Chester • 802.875.3400 www.phoenixbooks.biz

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LEGO CLUB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 264-5660.

SEVEN DAYS

FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Tots up to age 5 turn up the volume. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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DIGESTIVE RESET: Homeopaths go with their gut in a workshop with Shona R. MacDougal, who prescribes herbs and foods to expel stomach pain, gas and irregular bowels. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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Tuesday & Wednesday, September 27 & 28 at 8 pm, FlynnSpace

WAYS TO UTILIZE LINKEDIN IN YOUR BUSINESS: A hands-on workshop teaches the 12 top tips for creating an effective profile on the business oriented networking platform. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

comedy

GIRLS ON THE RUN VERMONT FALL BENEFIT: HEART, SOLE & LAUGHTER: AN EVENING WITH THE VERMONT COMEDY DIVAS: The Green Mountain State’s funniest females sling sizzling zingers. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $30-50; cash bar. Info, 863-5966.

community

James E. Robison Foundation

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

conferences

Algeria’s

Ifrikya Spirit Saturday, September 30 at 8 pm, FlynnSpace DJAMA NADIR

‘ZIG ZAG LIT MAG’ RELEASE PARTY: Hot off the press, the first issue of Addison County’s only arts and literature magazine debuts with a reading and a meet-and-greet. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6 p.m. Free. Info, litmag@bixbylibrary.org.

business

About Kazuo Ohno

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CARDY RAPER: From hog-butchering to community corn-shucking, the memoir An American Harvest: How One Family Moved From Dirt-Poor Farming to a Better Life in the Early 1900s tells of the life and times of eight siblings. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

PIPE CLASSIC 11: See WED.21.

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SEVEN DAYS

BOOK RELEASE: Historical fiction fans file in t hear author Jack Mayer read from Before the Court of Heaven, based on the true story of fascist assassin Ernst Werner Techow. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

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INTERVALE CENTER TOUR: A pastoral stroll highlights innovative programs and a rich agricultural history. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 660-0440, ext. 113.

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CLIFFORD SYMPOSIUM: See THU.22, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

crafts

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

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‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: One actress portrays all 24 characters in this story spanning four generations from early apartheid to present-day South Africa.

Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-30.

Info, 229-0492.

agriculture

Saturday, September 24 at 8 pm, MainStage

Media

‘STEEL MAGNOLIAS’: A close-knit group of Louisiana women finds strength in friendship as they face challenges of love and health in this Waterbury Festival Playhouse performance.

Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $15-35.

Info, 498-3755.

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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners are welcome. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14; $8 for dance only. Info, 862-2269.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine

connections. Auditorium, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.

etc.

GHOST WALK: DARKNESS FALLS: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts.

Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $18; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-5966.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

fairs & festivals

OKTOBERFEST VERMONT: See THU.22.

SPRINGFIELD STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL: Fans of the style inspired by both the Victorian era and science fiction get their gears turning at three days of performances, vendors, panels and workshops. See calendar spotlight. Hartness House, Springfield, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $8-65; free for kids 8 and under; free for all on Friday; additional cost for some activities. Info, steampunksocietyvt@gmail.com.

film

‘ALL OF ME’: See THU.22, Burlington City Arts.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: Viewers vote for their favorite films during this global celebra tion of cinema. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.22.

BURLINGTON TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. An indoor artists’ market adds to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

COCKTAIL PARTY: See THU.22.

FIVE CORNERS FARMERS MARKET: Conscious consumers shop local produce, premade treats and crafts. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail. com.

FOODWAYS FRIDAYS: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $414; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 343-9778.

VERMONT BEER WEEK: See WED.21.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

LAUGHTER YOGA: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle!

Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. The ellness Coop, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

NIA WITH REBECCA: An expressive workout combining dance, martial arts and healing arts strengthens the mind, body and spirit. Shelburne Town Hall, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $16; free for first-timers.

Info, 489-6701.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.21.

kids

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

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

EARLY-BIRD MATH STORY TIME: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics.

Community Room, Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

SONGS & STORIES WITH MATTHEW: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

TEEN DANCE: Boys and girls break it down on the dance floo . Bellows Falls Moose Lodge, 7-11 p.m. $3. Info, susan@svidol.com.

music

80’S BLUEGRASS HILLBILLY BALL: DoJo meld the down-home sounds of bluegrass with 1980s pop hits in their Addison County debut. Food, beer, wine and specialty cocktails fuel the fun. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebu y, 8 p.m.midnight. $5. Info, 388-4841.

ALBUM RELEASE PARTY: Multi-instrumentalist Jim Yeager strikes a chord when he debuts his solo recording, The Beau y of Imperfection, with special guest Dylan Keith. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7:30 p.m. $15 includes CD. Info, 457-3500.

ANNEMIEKE MCLANE: The pianist takes classical fans on a musical hike with a concert celebrating her new album, Birds & Beethoven. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 846-4835.

JOHANNES GRENZFURTHNER: In “Traceroute: A Personal Journey Into Nerd Culture,” the artist takes attendees on a virtual trip from coast to coast, introducing the people and places that inspired his film Traceroute. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

theater

‘FUDDY MEERS’: See THU.22.

‘HONEY, LET’S GO HOME’ & ‘THE GATES OF UNFINISHED LIFE’: Primitive puppets and masked players are the stars of two offbeat performances.

Bread and Puppet Theate , Glover, museum tour, 6 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-3031.

‘RUMORS’: A dinner party takes a hilarious turn when guests discover a wounded host and a missing hostess in Neil Simon’s madcap comedy, staged

by Shelburne Players. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 343-2602.

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CONCERT FOR THE CURE: Bluegrass Gospel Project pick and strum to support the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Essex Community Church, N.Y., 7:30-9:15 p.m. $10-20; preregister; limited space. Info, 518-962-2688.

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TAR IGUANA: The jam-rock outfit takes the stag with selections from its 2015 release, Tympanum.

Love Port open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 540-0406.

WENDY MACISAAC & TROY MACGILLIVRAY: Traditional fiddle tunes find eager ears. Burlingto Violin Shop, 6-9:30 p.m. $20; limited space. Info, 233-5293.

NEW VOICES SERIES

A2VT and Benny Nduwayo Saturday, October 1 at 8 pm, FlynnSpace

PIPE CLASSIC 11: See WED.21.

bazaars

Series Sponsored by

BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: Juried artisans offer their creations, weather permitting. Burlington City Hall Park, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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LAWN & BAKE SALE: Homemade treats and barbecue fare sustain shoppers as they hunt for gently used treasures. Bethany Church of Montpelier, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2424.

Rennie Harris Puremovement

conferences

CLIFFORD SYMPOSIUM: See THU.22, 8:30 a.m.

crafts

Friday, October 7 at 8 pm, MainStage

ADULT COLORING: Grown-ups pick up colored pencils for a meditative and creative activity. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Sponsor

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dance

Flip Fabrique Sunday, October 9 at 8 pm, MainStage

etc.

Sponsor

25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA FUNDRAISER: Fairfax Community Theatre Company celebrates a qua ter century of productions with DJ sets, musical-theater karaoke, sweet and savory snacks, and a photo booth. Funds raised benefit theater programs.

Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 7-11 p.m. $10-25.

Info, 849-6638.

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seminars

ELDER EDUCATION ENRICHMENT SERIES: Norwich University president Richard Schneider commands attention with “Leadership in the 21st Century.”

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OPEN SPACE: AN IMPROVISATIONAL LABORATORY: Artistic students, faculty and community members try out ideas during an hour of silent experimentation, followed by an hour open to musicians. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

CONTRA DANCE: Folks in clean-soled shoes move to tunes by Shindy and calling by Adina Gordon. Bring a dish to share. East Thetford Pavilion, beginner session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $6-9; free for kids under 16; donations for seniors. Info, uppervalleydmc@ gmail.org.

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outdoors

IT’S YOUR LIFE!: 5 STEPS TO STAYING SERENE AMIDST THE CHAOS: Stressed-out students find fulfillment by putting their own needs first.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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FOURTH SATURDAY SWING DANCE: Participants put their best foot forward at a session set to jazz, big band and contemporary music. Indoor shoes are required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

FALL MIGRATION BIRD WALKS: Avian enthusiasts explore local hot spots for songbird species. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. $10; free for kids and members. Info, 229-6206.

• One-year vaccine study

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VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: A program featuring works by Mozart, Copland, Zach Sheets and Borodin charms classical connoisseurs. See calendar spotlight. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7:30 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 863-5966.

Email UVMVTC@UVM.EDU or visit UVMVTC.ORG

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JAZZYAOKE: Would-be crooners front a live six-piece band and sing the standards at an open mic session. Lyrics are provided. Grange Hall, Waterbury Center, 7-10 p.m. $5. Info, 244-4168.

• Healthy adults, ages 18 – 50

‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See THU.22.

FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths use MFA-style critique methods to analyze a novelin-progress by a Burlington Writers Workshop member. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

JAZZ AFTER HOURS: Student ensembles and combos serve up syncopated stylings at a nighttime concert. University of Vermont Southwick Ballroom, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-2295.

Call 802-656-0013 for more info and to schedule a screening.

Leave your name, number, and a good time to call back.

‘STEEL MAGNOLIAS’: See THU.22.

CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT & THE AARON DIEHL TRIO: Drawing from her award-winning record For One to Love, the vocalist captivates audience members with jazz and blues gems.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-35.

Info, 603-646-2422.

HOMECOMING CONCERT: UVM’s concert band joins forces with the orchestra, choir and the Catamount Singers for a varied program. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

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GHOST WALK: DARKNESS FALLS: See FRI.23.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

OPEN HOUSE POTLUCK & DANCE PARTY: The col laboratively run movement studio opens its doors to folks from all walks of life. The E erything Space, Montpelier, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 318-3927.

SINGLE ADULT DINNER & A MOVIE: Men and women mix and mingle over a meal before heading to Majestic 10 Cinemas to catch a film. Asian Bistro, Williston, 5 p.m. Cost of food and movie. Info, 989-4081.

VERMONT RESPITE HOUSE CLOSING CEREMONY: Friends and family who have been touched by the Visiting Nurse Association hospice facility say goodbye through meditation and reflection.

Vermont Respite House, Williston, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-1900.

‘WHITE VILLAGE, THEN AND NOW’: A Vermont Archaeology Month walking tour of Waterford with Dave Morrison reveals evidence of past homes, industry and communities. Davies Memorial Library, Lower Waterford, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

fairs & festivals

BRISTOL HARVEST FESTIVAL: Crafters display their wares at this seasonal shindig featuring bandstand music, an apple pie contest and kids’ activities. Bristol Town Green, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 388-7951.

CHAMPLAIN MINI MAKER FAIRE: A DIY mindset attracts tech-savvy tinkerers, who check out innovative feats of art, science and engineering. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $6-27; free for kids 10 and under. Info, info@champlainmakerfaire.com.

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CREATIVITY FEST: A DAY OF FREE ART ACTIVITIES: Adults and kids get their hands dirty with clay sculpture projects. Art-centered demos and activities, homemade pie and snacks round out the day.

Middlebury Studio School, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, ewaldewald@aol.com.

EAST BURKE FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL: Changing leaves give locals reason to celebrate with a parade, a craft show, horse-drawn wagon rides, kids’ activities and live music by Chickweed and Tritium Well. East Burke Village, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 626-4124.

FOREST FESTIVAL WEEKEND: History, science and art complement wagon rides, woodworking and junior forester programs at this family-friendly fest.

Additional activities take place at Billings Farm & Museum. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; regular admission for museum activities, $4-14; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-3368, ext. 222.

HARVEST FESTIVAL: Partygoers partake of Lewis Creek Farm’s bountiful harvest along with music, games and autumn-spice mead. Colchester’s Mead Hall, 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 497-2345.

HARVESTIVAL GRAPE STOMP & JAMBOREE: Adventurous attendees roll up their pant legs for the grape-stomp contest, which gives way to live music, food, beer and wine. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 1-8 p.m. Free; preregister for contest. Info, 223-1151.

HOLISTIC HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIR: Vendors and practitioners use their talents and skills in areas such as crystal healing, medical intuition and astrology to help folks improve their well-being.

Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $10-15. Info, 839-9940.

NEWPORT FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL: Families fête the changing seasons with activities ranging from a quilt festival to a craft fair and Chilifest. Various Newport locations, 10 a.m. Free; cost for some activities. Info, 334-0599.

OKTOBERFEST VERMONT: See THU.22.

OLD-FASHIONED HARVEST MARKET: Fall is in full swing at two-day community fair featuring food, crafts, live music, an electric vehicle display and a parade. United Church of Underhill, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free; donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 899-1722.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.21, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

games

NORTHERN VERMONT SCRABBLE CLUB: Wordsmiths use lettered tiles to spell out winning combinations. Panera Bread, Barre, 1-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 524-1801.

PITTSFORD HARVEST FAIR: Artisans offer handmade items alongside decorated pumpkins, food and home goods at this pastoral party. Pittsford Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 483-2218.

health & fitness

SPRINGFIELD STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

VERMONT FINE FURNITURE & WOODWORKING FESTIVAL: Handcrafted pieces reflect local a tisans’ skills at this annual event held in conjunction with Forest Festival Weekend. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular museum admission, $4-14; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 747-7900.

WONDERPAWS FESTIVAL & PAW PARADE: Woof!

Pup- and kid-friendly activities forge connections between community members and man’s best friend. Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum, Rutland, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $15-20 for parade participation; free for spectators. Info, 282-2678.

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.21, 8-9 a.m.

STEP INTO ACTION RECOVERY WALK: Supporters make strides for Vermont’s addiction recovery centers. A rally, lunch and keynote speakers follow.

First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, registration, 8:30 a.m.; event, 10 a.m. Free. Info, stepintoactionvt@gmail.com.

kids

DROP-IN STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers settle in for picture books, finger plays and action rhymes. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

film

‘ALL OF ME’: See THU.22, Waterbury Public Library.

HIGHGATE CROSS COUNTRY KIDS’ FUN RUN: Junior joggers in grades K through 6 stretch their legs on one-mile and half-mile courses. Highgate Sports Arena, registration, 8-8:20 a.m.; run, 8:30 a.m. $1. Info, 868-3970.

‘DAVID AND LISA’: Shown on 16mm film, this 1962 drama follows a young couple who find l ve in a mental institution. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com.

WHOLE BOOK APPROACH STORYTIME: Kids learn how words, pictures and book design work together to complete a narrative. Phoenix Books Essex, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 388-4841.

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8 CUERDAS: Soprano Sarah Cullins and guitarist Daniel Gaviria band together for “Barcelona,” a program featuring Catalan composers. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

‘PHOENIX’: A Jewish singer, rendered unrecognizable by facial surgery, searches for her husband in post-WWII Berlin. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

BEN FOLDS: The piano man reflects on his caree with past hits and new, innovative compositions.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $36-60. Info, 863-5966.

‘PURPLE RAIN’: Prince stars in a semi-autobiographical flick about a oung musician struggling for success, shown as part of the Rock on Film Series. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222.

DAVE KELLER CD RELEASE PARTY: Horns and backup singers boost soul- and blues-inspired numbers from Right Back Atcha! FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 863-5966.

‘TRACEROUTE’: Johannes Grenzfurthner’s 2016 film delves into the history of nerd culture. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.22.

AN EVENING OF MOZART, BARTÓK & CRUMB: A powerhouse program played on piano and percussion showcases area musicians as part of the University of Vermont Lane Series. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-15.

Info, 656-4455.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

HAYWIRE: The local quintet e fortlessly blends bluegrass and Americana stylings for a rollicking good time. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 728-6464.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 793-8347.

KELLY RAVIN ALBUM RELEASE SHOW: Joined by a full band, the singer-songwriter serenades listeners with rock and country tunes from Bonneville.

Maryse Smith opens. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0406.

food & drink

COCKTAIL PARTY: See THU.22.

NORTH COUNTRY CHORDSMEN: The Upper alley’s barbershop chorus gets in tune for “Wonderful World.” Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 603-448-0400.

SEASONAL BLUE: Cocktails made with Green Mountain Distillers blueberry vodka pair perfectly with fla orful fare at the inaugural installment of the Taste of the Season series.

Green Mountain Distillers, Morristown, 5-7 p.m. $25; limited space; for ages 21 and up. Info, 253-0064.

SILO CACAO VODKA TASTING: Imbibers savor sips of the Vermont-made spirit infused with Lake Champlain Chocolates cacao shells. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 2-5 p.m. Free; for ages 21 and up. Info, 864-1807.

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SUMMER EVENINGS WITH VERMONT TREASURES: Banjo and voice converge when Patti Casey and Tom MacKenzie treat concertgoers to an al fresco listening experience.

Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 827-3275.

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TRUCK STOP WINOOSKI: Merrymakers eat, drink and jam to live music at a dog- and family-friendly gathering of mobile food purveyors.

Winooski Falls Way, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

VERMONT BEER WEEK: See WED.21.

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VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: See FRI.23, Vergennes Opera House.

VERMONT YOUTH PHILHARMONIA FALL CONCERT: A compelling and grand repertoire including works by Robert W. Smith, Richard Wagner, Gustav Holst and John Williams keeps audience members on the edge of their seats. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5-6 p.m. $2-5. Info, 655-5030, ext. 100.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

politics

DANCE PARTY: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter cuts loose with community members during a family-friendly affair complete with DJ sets, dinner and dessert. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 5-8 p.m. $25-1,000; cash bar. Info, 229-1783.

seminars

INTRO TO EXCEL: Columns, rows, cells, formulas and data entry become second nature at a tutorial on electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

UNDERSTANDING & USING DNA ETHNICITY MAPS: Ed McGuire gives genealogical explorers the lay of the land when it comes to tracing the origin of ancestors with resources from different companies. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.

VCAM’S DIGITAL EDITING CERTIFICATION: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor’s permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 651-9692.

sports

THE COLOR RUN TROPICOLOR WORLD TOUR: Runners wearing white at the starting line are plastered in blue, yellow, orange and pink pigments over a 3.1-mile course in the “happiest 5K on the planet.”

Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $39.99-$59.99. Info, thecolorrun.com.

NORTHEASTERN OPEN ATLATL CHAMPIONSHIP: Take aim! Skilled outdoorsmen channel ancient hunters and hurl spears through the air at this historical affair featuring flint knapping and cra t workshops. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $7 for competitors; $5 for spectators; free for kids under 15. Info, 759-2412.

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CAROL WALKER: Equine enthusiasts saddle up for a horse-photo presentation and a lecture on the state of wild mustangs. The Center for Americas First Horse, Johnson, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 730-5400.

DICK MOORE: Step right up! Magic lantern slide images provide vivid views of the circus in “The Cirque d’ Magique.” Shelburne Museum, 2-4 p.m. Regular museum admission, $7-58; free for members, active military and kids under 5. Info, 985-3346.

TALES OF THE HUNTING CAMP: A panel of local hunters regales listeners with stories from the field. Auditorium, Bradford Academ , 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 222-4423.

theater

‘FUDDY MEERS’: See THU.22.

‘RUMORS’: See FRI.23.

‘STEEL MAGNOLIAS’: See THU.22.

‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See THU.22.

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EXTEMPO: Local raconteurs tell first-person true stories before a live audience. The Blue Barn, Calais, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 223-0184.

LEAGUE OF VERMONT WRITERS ANNUAL FALL EVENT: Industry professionals including William Notte, Amy Patricia Mead and Jensen Beach unpack topics such as submitting manuscripts, researching and planning for stories, and maximizing one’s social media presence. Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $55-65; preregister. Info, lvw@leagueofvermontwriters.org.

NEWPORT IS FOR BOOKLOVERS: Acclaimed writers Lynda Graham-Barber, Tanya Sousa, Patty Oliver-Smith, Jerry Johnson and Cat Holm share

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Info, 334-1966.

SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK GROUP: Coffee and snacks stoke a discourse on Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows.

Fairfax Community Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

VERMONT BOOK AWARD GALA: The ermont Book Award winner is revealed at a celebration of literature complete with readings, music and distinguished guests. Alumni Hall, Haverhill, N.H., 5 p.m. $100. Info, 828-8613.

SUN.25 bazaars

LAWN & BAKE SALE: See SAT.24, noon-3 p.m.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

Info, assistant@centerformindfullearning.org.

dance

BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. $6; free for first-timers; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020.

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OLD-FASHIONED HARVEST MARKET: See SAT.24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

VERMONT FINE FURNITURE & WOODWORKING FESTIVAL: See SAT.24.

VERMONT PUMPKIN CHUCKIN’ FESTIVAL: Soaring squashes reach new heights thanks to handmade trebuchets at this benefit for the Lamoi le Restorative Center. Live music and a chili cook-off round out the day. Stoweflake Mountain Reso t & Spa, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $5; free for kids 4 and under; additional cost for parking. Info, 603-630-4800.

film

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 3884841. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $16. Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

BOOZY BRUNCH: It’s fi e o’ clock somewhere!

Stonecutter Spirits cocktails prime diners for a multicourse meal prepared by chef Julia Clancy.

Stonecutter Spirits, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $25 includes food and one cocktail. Info, 388-3000.

PIE FEST: Bakers battle for the honor of best fruit-and-crust concoction and a cash prize amid the sounds of live music. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2753.

VERMONT BEER WEEK: See WED.21.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic fare, assorted harvests and agricultural products against a backdrop of live music. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@downtownwinooski.org.

CELEBRATION OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS: Be they artists, musicians, poets or comedians, three creatives share original and thought-provoking work in an intimate setting. The Inn, Montgome y Center, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 326-4391.

health & fitness

HIGH-WHEEL BICYCLE DEMONSTRATION & RIDE: Dressed in period attire, the Wheelmen demonstrate their skills on 19th- and 20th-century velocipedes, then hit the road for a seven-mile ride while spectators watch with wonder. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 388-2117.

fairs & festivals

19TH-CENTURY APPLE & CHEESE HARVEST FESTIVAL: Heirloom apples and local fromage fla or a day of historical games, farm animals and cider pressing. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $5-10 includes lunch. Info, 765-4288.

CHAMPLAIN MINI MAKER FAIRE: See SAT.24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

FOREST FESTIVAL WEEKEND: See SAT.24.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

FOOT-CARE CLINIC: See THU.22.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.21.

Burlington City Arts

NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

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FAMILY FUN DAY: Kids, moms and dads dive into aquariums, exhibits, snacks and a show by Puppets in Education. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-800-4005.

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‘THE KING AND I’ OPEN AUDITIONS: Thespians in grades K through 12 throw their hats into the ring for roles in Rutland Youth Theatres production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical tale of East meets West. Courcelle Building, Rutland, 2-5 p.m.

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‘PETE THE CAT’: The fictional feline from Eric Litwi and James Dean’s popular stories struts onstage in a finge -snapping musical staged by Theatre orks USA. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $1323. Info, 603-646-2422.

STUDENT DANCER AUDITIONS: Grouped by age, twinkle-toed performers give their all for a part in the Albany Berkshire Ballet’s The Nutcracke . See berkshireballet.org for details. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $15.

Info, nutcracker.vt@gmail.com.

SUNDAYS FOR FLEDGLINGS: From feathers and flying to a t and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m.

Regular admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

HOLISTIC HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIR: See SAT.24, 1-6 p.m.

OKTOBERFEST VERMONT: See THU.22.

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CO-OP FOOD FEST: Locavores sample tidbits from more than four dozen food producers. Door prizes, face painting and live music top off the fun. See calendar spotlight. Union Station, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

DYNAMIC QIGONG: Breathing, stretching and meditative motions enhance health and wellbeing. Charlotte Congregational Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 238-2637.

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CATERPILLAR FEST: Entomology enthusiasts get up close and personal with dozens of backyard species presented by educators from the Caterpillar Lab. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $5-10. Info, 229-6206.

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HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

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GHOST WALK: LAKEVIEW CEMETERY: Cavort with ghosts as local historian Thea Lewis guides ou through great characters of Burlington’s yesteryear. Louisa Howard Chapel, Burlington, 7 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

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‘ALL OF ME’: See THU.22, Shelburne Town Hall.

BETTER L8 THAN NEVER CAR SHOW: Gearheads check out sweet rides at this benefit for Camp aKum-Ta, hosted by the Snake Mountain Cruisers.

Bristol Recreation Field, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $20 per vehicle; donations for spectators. Info, 388-7951.

CHRISTMAS REVELS KICKOFF: Traditions come to life with a Québécois culture demonstration, potluck and dance. East Thetford Pavilion, 4 p.m.

Free. Info, 866-556-3083.

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

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

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PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions.

See piknicelectronik.com for details. Parc JeanDrapeau, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $13.50-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 514-904-1247.

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BUDDY GUY: The six-string master wows the crowd with selections from 2015’s Born to Play Guitar.

Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $78-98. Info, 603-448-0400.

CHORAL CELEBRATION: The members of A l Souls Choir and the South County Chorus fi l the room with beautifully blended voices in an uplifting celebration of water. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain executive director Phelan Fretz offers remarks. Breeding Barn, Shelburne Farms, 4-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-3819.

GARY STROUTSOS: The internationa ly acclaimed flutist e okes a spirit of place with world music drawn from a wide range of cultures. Old Round Church, Richmond, 3:30-5 p.m. $10. Info, 434-3654.

UKULELE MELEE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: See FRI.23, Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 4 p.m.

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VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA FALL CONCERT: Interim conductor Edward Cumming leads area musicians in works by 19th- and 20th-century composers. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $12-17. Info, 863-5966.

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POINTS OF INTEREST: LAKE CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE GUIDED WALK: Pedestrians take a stroll through yesteryear on a historical saunter with Elsa Gilbertson and Michael Roets as part of Vermont Archaeology Month. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, 1-3 p.m. $6. Info, 272-2509.

sports

ADVENTURE RIDE: Pedal pushers embark on a 20-mile mystery ride over varying terrain. Bring snacks and call for details. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

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BOOTCAMPERS AGAINST BREAST CANCER 5K: Runners pound the pavement to support Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Rutland County. A benefit pa ty at Charity’s 1887 Saloon & Restaurant follows. Herbert I. Johnson Recreation Center, Killington, noon. $15-25. Info, 779-4619.

FALL FOLIAGE 5K RUN/WALK: Active bodies break a sweat for the Washington County Youth Service Bureau/Boys & Girls Club. Choice Physical Thera y, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $15-30. Info, 229-6398.

ISLAND VINES 10K: Runners feel the burn on a 6.2mile course, then treat themselves to palate-pleasing wines from the vineyard. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $40-45. Info, 863-8412.

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ULTIMATE FRISBEE PICKUP: Athletes bust out their discs for a casual game. Bring cleats and white and dark shirts. Calahan Park, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, gmdaboard@gmail.com.

SPANISH GROUP CLASSES: Students roll their Rs while practicing en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:45-4:30 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@ hotmail.com.

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.

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related programs. Burlington City Hall Park, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7949, ext. 103.

ERIN EISENBARTH: The sa torially savvy speaker uses a collection of authentic clothing as a case study in “Singularities of Dress: Quakers and Their Clothing in the 19th Century.” Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3 p.m. $2; free with museum admission, $8-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 877-3406.

theater

ALMEIDA THEATRE LIVE: A broadcast production of Shakepeare’s Richard III features Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret playing opposite Ralph Fiennes in the title role. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘FUDDY MEERS’: See THU.22, 2 p.m.

‘POLITICAL LEAF PEEPING’: Performers fête fall foliage with music, cantastorias, puppetry and potato pancakes. Bread and Puppet Theate , Glover, 2-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-3031.

‘RUMORS’: See FRI.23, 2-4 p.m.

‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See THU.22, 2 p.m.

words

‘BEST OF THE BURLINGTON WRITERS WORKSHOP 2016’ POETRY READING: Zoe Armstrong, Mark Hoffman, Spencer Smith and Jimmy Tee share their gifts for verse with excerpts from the new anthology. Shelburne Vineyard, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free; cash bar. Info, 383-8104.

WORDS OUT LOUD: Bianca Stone and Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord step into the spotlight with selected stanzas. A reception at the Kent Museum follows. Old West Church, Calais, 3-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 828-5657.

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MINDFULNESS FOR ACTIVISTS: A two-part workshop arms nonviolent soldiers for social justice with skills in meditation and deep listening. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

agriculture

HANDS IN THE DIRT: Seniors work side by side with preschoolers in the garden while stories and snacks keep spirits high. Transportation and interpretation are available; call for details. Archibald Neighborhood Garden, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 864-7528.

bazaars

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

business

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR NEW BUSINESS OWNERS: Local attorneys elucidate a range of issues such as entity formation, contract basics, and licenses and regulations. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

START UP SERIES — IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP RIGHT FOR YOU? & STEPS TO STARTING A BUSINESS: Potential tycoons see if they have what it takes to launch an operation. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

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dance

ADULT AERIAL DANCE CONDITIONING: With or without previous experience, folks forge strength, grace and confidence in the ai . North End Studio B, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $15. Info, 863-6713.

ADULT CONTEMPORARY DANCE: A weekly class crescendos with expressive phrases of movement.

North End Studio B, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $12.

Info, 863-6713.

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12.

Info, 227-2572.

etc.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The No th Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m.

Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT CAMPAIGN KICKOFF WEEK: NETWORKING EVENT: Community members nosh on light hors d’oeuvres while partners, friends and supporters share a program of storytelling and presentations. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 861-7816.

film

CINÉ SALON: IN DIALOGUE TREVOR FAIRBROTHER: ANDY WARHOL’S ‘SCREEN TEST’ & ‘COUCH’: The a t historian pulls back the curtain on Warhol’s love affair with black-and-white silent experimental movies. Mayer Room, Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free; for mature audiences.

Info, 603-643-4120.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 388-4841.

food & drink

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

Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 7 p.m.

MAH JONGG: Longtime players and neophytes alike compete in the popular Chinese tile game.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

health & fitness

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.21.

NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.25, 7 p.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.21, North End Studio A, Burlington.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.21.

kids

BABY LAP TIME: Babes up to 24 months experience color, sound and movement through stories, songs, bounces and rhymes. Richmond Free Library, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

CRAFTS FOR KIDS: Aspiring artisans ages 5 and up work on new projects. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

NATURE PLAYGROUP: Richmond, Huntington and Hinesburg residents up to age 5 encounter the wonders of the great outdoors. Meet at the

STORIES WITH MEGAN: Budding bookworms ages 2 through 5 open their ears for exciting tales.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free; groups must preregister. Info, reference@ burlingtonvt.gov.

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STORY TIME & CRAFTS WITH CAITLIN: Engaging narratives complement seasonally themed creative projects. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 955-5124.

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language

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

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SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: Newbies are invited to help keep the beat as Burlington’s Brazilian-style street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. No experience or instruments are required.

8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-5017.

seminars

DOG SAFETY WITH DOGS ROCK VERMONT: Professional trainer Laurie Lawless translates canine body language, stress behaviors and warning signs. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

sports

PICKUP DODGEBALL: Coed groups of adult players drop in and heave balls at the competition.

Orchard School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 324-3036.

talks

DAVID RAKEL: As part of the Laura Mann Integrative Healthcare Lecture Series, the University of New Mexico professor promotes the power of people in “The Clinician E fect: How Human Connection Impacts Outcomes.” Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 656-2858.

EXPLORING DEAFNESS IN CECE BELL’S ‘EL DEAFO’: A PANEL DISCUSSION: Themes of hearing impai ment and identity are at the center of a lively dialogue. Sign language interpreters are available.

McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

FUTURE OF KOREA 2016: Relations between the United States and Korea are at the core of a conversation between Embassy of the Republic of Korea’s Hohyun Jang and U.S. Department of State’s Will Cobb. Chittenden Room, People’s United Bank, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, vinson@vermont.org.

PAST LIVES, DREAMS & SOUL TRAVEL: An open discussion hosted by Eckankar encourages spiritual seekers to consider a previous existence as the key to a happier life. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

theater

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

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HG Skis Presents Promocabana THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

Vermont Cider Classic

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Swale + Barbacoa FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

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

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PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.22.

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ESSENTIAL OILS FOR IMMUNE SUPPORT: With help from Liz Perkins, homeopaths prepare for the seasonal change and the health challenges that come with it by whipping up blended oils. Jericho Town Library, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4686.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: See THU.22, 11 a.m.

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ADULT BOOK GROUP: All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship by Kathryn Miles enthralls readers. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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

TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

CRAFT SESSION: CREATIVE NONFICTION: Burlington Writers Workshop members flex their pens by dipping into elements of style in memoirs, essays and journalism. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

LOST CITY UNDERGROUND FILM SOCIETY: Oddball, independent, foreign and classic films ente tain movie lovers. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7-9 p.m. $6.

Info, 496-8994.

language

BEGINNER-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Basic communication skills are on the agenda at a guided lesson. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

games

business

RENTAL INCOME SEMINAR: Those seeking financia freedom and security get wise to the ways of real estate investment. Preferred Properties, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 318-7654.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.23.

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

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KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy features at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 356-2776.

agriculture

GARDENING & CLIMATE CHANGE IN VERMONT: Burlington Garden Club members and friends get the dirt on how global warming affects tree and plant growth from a talk by climatologist LesleyAnn Dupigny-Giroux. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, social time, 12:30-1:15 p.m.; meeting, 1:15 p.m.; talk, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5485.

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language arts. Campus Center, Castleton University, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-1119.

BUILDING EMPATHY & ADDRESSING RACIAL OPPRESSION: Tools for creating an anti-oppressive society come to the fore in this three-part series led

by Julie Drogin and Alyssa Chen. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

activism

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Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM ’ SA FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, Merrill’s Roxy ‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH T.24 NIX | F IL M | ‘ P H O E Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

CONVERSATION: Native speakers are wel$6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742. Marquis Theatre come to pipe up at an unstructured conversa& Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, tional practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 388-4841. p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

‘VILLA ROSA’: Fiction and reality combine in PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: French director Lázaro González’s examination of sexual language fanatics engage in dialogue en français. diversity, gender identity and attitudes toward the Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

LGBTQ community in Cuba. Room 101, University of Info, 363-2431.

Vermont Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, 6-8 SIGN LANGUAGE: With the help of books and props, p.m. Free. Info, tina.escaja@uvm.edu.

Cathy Segovia demonstrates the visual commu-

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 7 p.m.

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages put on their thinking caps in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere.

Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

health & fitness

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

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

FELDENKRAIS: AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Whether you consider it relaxing exercise or active meditation, this experience can reduce pain and increase mobility. Bring a blanket and wear warm, cozy clothes. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $15; free for first-timers. Info, 735-3770 FELDENKRAIS CLASS: Free up your joints with Gillian, who leads participants through the neurophysical learning method. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0186.

nication system. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

music

OPEN JAM SESSION: Musicians follow the flow and e plore sound together. The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

politics

NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY OBSERVANCE & ACTION: All who are eligible can register to vote during a drive hosted by Champlain Voices. Champlain Community Services, Colchester, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0511, ext. 163.

seminars

HOW TO POSTPARTUM LIKE A BOSS: Moms-to-be map out physical and emotional care plans for after baby arrives. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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

‘RADICAL DHARMA: TALKING RACE, LOVE & LIBERATION’ BOOK CONVERSATIONS: angel Kyodo williams and Lama Rod Owens’ call to action informs a fi e-part conversation series led by Jennifer Decker and Denise Casey. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Donations; limited space. Info, 735-2265.

SEARCH FOR MEANING ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP: Avid readers reflect on selected texts.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

WINE & STORY OPEN MIC: Prompts trigger first person narratives told to a live audience. Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

WED.28 agriculture

THE SOLUTION IS IN THE SOIL: Organic farmer Dan Kittredge connects the dots between soil health, plant health and human health. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

art

LIFE DRAWING: See WED.21.

business

WAYS TO MAXIMIZE LINKEDIN FOR YOUR BUSINESS: Professionals who want to master their firms’ de elopment potential through the online platform take notes on network-building strategies, lead generation and prospecting, and more. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. $25; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

crafts

BIRDS OF VERMONT SOAP CARVING: Artistic visions take shape as folks cut images out of soap using templates or original designs. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: See WED.21.

dance

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

FITNESS AT ANY AGE: Strength, agility, coordination and heart-healthy exercises are modified for folks of all ability levels. Charlotte Senior Center, 9:15-10 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

sports

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: See THU.22.

ABOUT KAZUO OHNO: See TUE.27.

dance

FOOT-CARE CLINIC: See THU.22.

talks

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‘ABOUT KAZUO OHNO’: Takao Kawaguchi challenges himself to copy the moves of the late butoh master. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 863-5966.

BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & FUSION DANCING: Pupils get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Fun-loving folks learn the smooth, sexy stylings of modern swing dance. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

GENTLE DROP-IN YOGA: Yogis hit the mat for a hatha session led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

ZUMBA WITH ALLISON: Conditioning is disguised as a party at this rhythm-driven workout session.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 227-7221.

MISSISQUOI ARCHAEOLOGY PRESENTATION & PUBLIC EDUCATION PANEL DEDICATION: A Vermont Archaeology Month presentation highlights the successful collaboration between the Vermont Agency of Transportation and local communities during excavations along Route 78.

Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

kids

theater

NIA WITH REBECCA: See FRI.23.

LEGO CHALLENGE: Burgeoning builders tackle construction tasks with colorful blocks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

‘EUGENE ONEGIN’: The operatic rete ling of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, staged by the Theater akhtangov, hits the silver screen.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1215. Info, 748-2600.

words

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PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: Imaginations blossom when young’uns up to age 6 engage in themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

film

READ TO WILLY WONKA THE CHOCOLATE LAB: Kiddos cozy up for story time with the library’s furry friend. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:304 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

BREAKBEAT POETS: Hip-hop poets use language to relay a full spectrum of lived experiences. Casella Theate , Castleton University, 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 468-1119.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher

BREAKBEAT POETS WORKSHOP: A group of spoken-word poets schools penmen and -women in

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

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Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-3018.

‘BLOOD SIMPLE’: Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1984 debut tells the tale of a jealous man who plots the murder of his cheating wife. Film House, Main Street

ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION: Lit lovers get to the heart of Colin Cotterill’s The Coroners Lunch.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.21.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.21.

NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEETUP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning, healthy eating habits and more. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-8228.

RUTLAND DEATH CAFÉ: Men and women discuss issues related to the end of life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT CAMPAIGN KICKOFF WEEK: NETWORKING EVENT: See MON.26, St. Albans Historical Museum. Free.

VIDEO SERIES: See WED.21.

WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: See WED.21.

film

‘ALL THE DIFFERENCE’: A 2016 documentary film follows two young men on their journey from high-risk communities to graduating college.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

BEST OF THE FEST: NARRATIVE WINNERS: Cinephiles who missed the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival get a second chance to view

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two top pictures. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 382-9222.

Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.23, Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 1, 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6.50-11.75. Info, 864-4742. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 388-4841.

language

SHADES OF NOIR: ‘LA CHIENNE’: An artist falls for a prostitute, not realizing that she and her pimp are running a scam in this 1931 film shown in French with English subtitles. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: See WED.21.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.21.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.21.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21.

TEEN & ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Quick thinkers 14 and up rely on invented personas to face challenges and defeat enemies. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free.

Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.

health & fitness

EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: See WED.21.

EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: See WED.21.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.21.

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.21.

MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.21.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.21.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.21.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.21.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.21.

SOAK IT, STEAM IT, RUB IT: HERBAL CARE FOR DOWN THERE: Rachel Leaf empowers students to treat common infections of the genitourinary system, such as yeast infections, urinary tract infections and herpes. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; free for VCIH students; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

TAI CHI FOR ALL: See WED.21.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: See WED.21.

ZUMBA: See WED.21.

kids

LEGO FUN: Tinkerers in grades K and up create unique structures with geometric pieces.

Youngsters under 5 require parental supervision.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6956.

STEM CLUB: Inquisitive kids tackle challenges in science, technology, engineering and math. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

STORY TIME: See WED.21.

STORY TIME: Timeless tales and new adventures spark imaginations. Phoenix Books Rutland, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 855-8078.

TODDLER TIME: See WED.21.

YOUNG WRITERS & STORYTELLERS: Kindergarteners through third graders practice crafting narratives. Burnham Memorial Library,

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.21.

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VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: See FRI.23, Fine Arts Center, Castleton University, 7 p.m.

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NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY OBSERVANCE & ACTION: See TUE.27.

seminars

ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING SERIES: See WED.21.

FALL FOLIAGE

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Tethered Balloon Rides (Weather Dependent) Northern Lights Rock Climbing Wall Red Cross Blood Drive Tent & Sidewalk Sales

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FREE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS: See WED.21.

LEARNING ABOUT AUTISM: A workshop in a 12v-raintree091416.indd 1 panel-discussion format prepares VSA Vermont volunteers and partners for working with people identified on the autism spectrum. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 238-5170.

WHY HAVE A MORTGAGE?: Financing options become clear in a seminar for potential homeowners. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

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Support a woman making the transiton from prison back into the community and a healthy life.

BURLINGTON HASH HOUSE HARRIERS: See WED.21.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.21.

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Orientation begins October 5 at 5:30pm

BURLINGTON GEOGRAPHIC: In “Urban Wilds of the Queen City,” Sean Beckett and Elise Schadler get at the root of what the stories hidden in local forests reveal about Burlington and its residents.

Burlington High School, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, place@ uvm.edu.

JESS ROBINSON: Attendees perk up their ears for the Vermont Archaeology Month talk, “Public Archaeology in the 21st Century,” followed by a Q&A. Davies Memorial Library, Lower Waterford, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

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‘MACBETH’: Northern Stage opens its 20th season with Shakespeare’s tragedy about a corrupt general’s quest to become King of Scotland. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $14-55. Info, 296-7000.

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ADAM KRAKOWSKI: Vermont Prohibition: Teetotalers, Bootleggers & Corruption opens the lid on the tumultuous side of Vermont’s temperance movement. Phoenix Books Rutland, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 855-8078.

PAINTED WORD POETRY SERIES: A program highlighting established and emerging New England poets features Elizabeth Powell. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, 6 p.m. Regular museum admission, $3-10; free for members, faculty, staff and students. Info, 656-0750.

VETERANS BOOK GROUP: Those who ha e served their country join Michael Heaney for a discussion of texts. South Burlington Veterans Center, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-1806.

WEDNESDAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths focus on elements of craft while discussing works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Participate in a research study and help develop a vaccine against Dengue Fever

Call 802-656-0013 for more info and to schedule a screening.

Leave your name, number, and a good time to call back.

Email UVMVTC@UVM.EDU or visit UVMVTC.ORG

• Healthy adults, ages 18 – 50 • One-year vaccine study • Earn up to $2430 in compensation

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STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.21.

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INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: See WED.21.

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LITTLE BOOM VT: Musical minds ages 1 through 5 and their families explore the world of drumming through stories and beats. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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KIDS’ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Experienced and novice players take on challenges to defeat enemies in this pen-and-paper role-playing game.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7:45 p.m.

Free. Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.

BEGINNER RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: See WED.21.

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WHAT ARE YOU REALLY PRACTICING?: Psychologist Robert Kest lends his expertise to an exploration of mindfulness and its wide range of outcomes. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

11am-5pm September 24

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.21.

classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Mon. Midday Wheel, Wed. p.m. Wheel, ˜ u. a.m. Clay Sculpture, Mon. p.m. Oils, ˜ u. a.m. Oils, Pastels, Int./Adv. Painting, Drawing, Color in the Kitchen, Handmade Books, Baskets, Acrylics, Chinese Brush Painting. Kids: Clay on the Wheel & Hand Building, Draw & Paint, Baskets, Animal Sculpture, Holiday Gifts, Paste Paper Art. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Route 7 South, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org.

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ABSTRACT PAINTING: Explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting through a series of fun exercises designed to open up intuitions and allow you to work freely. Using the paint of their choice, students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding different types of mixed media. Beginners welcome! Instructor: Linda Jones. ˜ u., Oct. 6-Nov. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. (no class Oct. 27). Cost: $220/ person; $198/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

ADOBE LIGHTROOM: Upload, organize, edit, and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW files, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Weekly on ˜ u., Oct. 20-Nov. 17, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $275/ person; $247.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

CONTEMPORARY FIGURE PAINTING: Painters, recharge your practice with contemporary

approach to the figure using fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal expression. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques and get supportive feedback in a small group environment. Figure drawing experience is recommended.

Instructor: Gail Salzman. Wed., Sep. 28-Nov. 16, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Cost: $360/person; $324/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DIY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES: Students will create one-of-akind Halloween costumes that will blow away those storebought costumes and impress their friends. Cut, sew and craft your way to the best Halloween ever! Basic materials are provided; bring two ideas for costumes and any material or old clothes to help create your costume.

Instructor: Kate McKernan. Fri., Oct. 21, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85/ person; $76.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

GRAPHIC NOVEL: React to your present life experiences and delve into your past using the style of a graphic novel, the comics, and cartooning technique of telling a story.

Learn diverse narrative and stylistic pen and ink techniques for communicating with words and pictures, from traditional to experimental methods. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rachel Lindsay. Wed., Oct. 5-Nov. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170/ person; $153/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

JEWELRY: Students will learn basic jewelry techniques including sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more. Explore different styles of contemporary and historical jewelry, design process, and the use of alternative materials through the studio library and the internet. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Tue., Sep. 27-Nov. 1, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington.

MIXED LEVEL JEWELRY: ˜ is is a less structured class for students who would like to work on a specific project, brush up on their techniques, or who want to learn some new techniques with the aid of an instructor

there to coach them. Open to all skill levels. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Weekly on ˜ u., Oct. 6-27, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $150/ person; $135/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St, Burlington.

MIXED LEVEL WHEEL THROWING: ˜ is class supports students across the range of skill and experience levels, is rooted in fundamentals and encourages individual projects.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Prerequisite: Wheel throwing experience.

Option 1: ˜ u., Sep. 29-Nov. 17, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Option 2: ˜ u., Sep. 29-Nov. 17, 6-9:30 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Cost: $290/person; $261/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. Students will earn a variety of painting techniques and how to paint directly from still life and use reference photographers to paint landscapes. ˜ is supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique. Beginners welcome!

Tue., Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PAINTING SEMINAR: COLOR HARMONY: ˜ e one-day class will focus on color harmony through exercises that stimulate awareness of color changes and temperatures, how to mix colors, and how various application techniques affect the appearance of color. Whether you work in abstraction or realism, landscapes or figures, this seminar will strengthen your use

of color. Instructor: Gail Salzman.

Sat., Sep. 24, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., 3rd-floor classroom, Burlington.

PRESCHOOL ART DROP-IN: ˜ is popular drop-in program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Participants will work with kid-friendly materials like homemade play dough and finger paint, and explore sculpture, drawings and crafts through their own projects or collaboratively. Instructor: Alexandra Turner. ˜ u., Sep. 22-Nov. 17, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members; ages 6 mo.-5 years. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PRINTMAKING: ˜ is introductory class will show you a whole range of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork. Over the four weeks, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials and learn techniques such as block printing with linoleum and drypoint etching. Instructor: Katie Loesel. Tue., Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SILKSCREEN: Students will learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silk screen exposure unit, and how to print on variety of surfaces. Instructor: Katie Loesel. ˜ u., Sep. 29-Nov. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

WOODCUT: ˜ e class will focus on the fundamental techniques and characteristics of relief printing and progress to more sophisticated woodblock printing processes. ˜ e second part of the class will explore the use of multiple-color printing and other creative possibilities for making a print. Instructor: Gregg Blasdel.

Mon., Oct. 3-Nov. 14 (no class Oct. 31), 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

climbing 3-WEEK ADULT CLIMBING CLINICS: A great introduction for those new to climbing or a way to hone skills for those who already have experience. Price includes three additional visits, gear rentals and three sessions with one of five clinics: coed beginner or intermediate, women’s beginner or intermediate, or lead climbing (for experienced climbers). Coed on Tue., Women’s on ˜ u. & Lead on Fri. beginning Sep. 20. Cost: $105/clinic.

Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center and Mountaineering School, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petracliffs. com, petracliffs.com/climbing/ adultclasses.

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dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! ˜ ere is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 355-1818, crandalltyler@hotmail. com, dsantosvt.com.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

GATEWAYS TO FREEDOM: A special 5Rhythms dance workshop with visiting teacher Evangelos Diavolitsis. In these highly unpredictable times, take refuge in a centered state of mind and in the power of grounded feet. ˜ is movement workshop will guide us as we move through the five universal rhythms. ˜ is practice is suitable for all ages and all levels of physical fitness. Oct. 14-16.

Cost: $225/weekend workshop. $30/Friday night only. Location: Contois Auditorium, 149 Church St., Burlington, Shelburne Town Hall, 5420 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. Info: Sakshi, 777-8415, sakshi.keeton@yahoo.com, justmoveinspireddance.com.

dreams KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS I: In this three-part class, learn the basics of knitting while making your very first chunky hat! Begin with swatching a gauge and casting on. Learn to knit and purl in the round on a circular needle. Complete by switching to double-pointed needles to decrease and bind off. Wed., Oct. 5, 12 & 19, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $108/3 2-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

ME AND MOM (OR DAD!) SEWING!: Children ages 7-13 and an adult are welcomed into our studio space for a fun three-hour, learn-to sew date! Neither child nor parent needs any experience to attend, and they will be working on their own machines and will complete their own trick-or-treat bag and tote bag.

Register today! Sun., Oct. 2. Cost: $105/3-hour class; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

dance DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to

THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING: Are you interested in dream interpretation, divine guidance through dreams and the part dreams can play in unlocking the puzzles of our lives?

All are welcome to this threepart series hosted by Eckankar.

Topics include: What are Dreams, Remembering and Interpreting Dreams, and Spiritual Unfoldment through Dreams.

Materials provided. 3 consecutive Wed., starting Sep. 21, 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Eckankar Center of Vermont, 95 College St., Burlington. Info: Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God, Amanda Amend, 6529893, amanda.amend@gmail. com, eckankar-vt.org.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Drums provided!

Burlington Beginners Djembe, Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Sep. 21, $48/4 weeks. $15/ drop-in. Djembes are provided.

Montpelier Beginners Djembe, ˜ u., 7-8:20 p.m. Montpelier Conga workshops ˜ u., 5:306:50 p.m. Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class!. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12,

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Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

KID’S AND PARENTS’ WORLD DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Tue. Taiko in Burlington (ages 6 and up): 4-5:20 p.m., starting Wed. Djembe in Burlington (ages 6 and up): 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Sep. 21, $48/child or $92/parent-child for 4 weeks.

Montpelier: Thu., 3:30-4:20 (ages 3-5) and Thu., 4:30-5:20 (ages 6 and up) starting Oct. 6, $36/child or $69/parent-child for 3 weeks (no class Oct. 20): Five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class!.

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Burlington Beginner/ Recreational Class, Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Sep. 20, $48/4 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners, Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:20 p.m. starting Sep. 19, $144/3 weeks.

Montpelier Taiko Beginners, Thu., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class . Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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healing arts UNDERSTANDING LYME DISEASE: Join Brendan Kelly, acupuncturist/herbalist, for class on a Chinese medicine understanding of Lyme disease. He’ll talk about how understanding the progression of the disease is essential to treating symptoms and promoting health. Brendan will present Lyme case studies and discuss the use of Western herbs, diet and lifestyle. He’ll also talk about the connection between Lyme and climate change.

Sat., Oct. 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40/4-hour class, with complementary copy of The in and Yang of Climate Crisis. Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Sukhpran, 318-6050, railyardapothecary @urbanmoonshine.com, railyardapothecary.com.

health CANNABIS AND CANCER WORKSHOP: In this class we will look at cannabis as a palliative treatment for side effects as well as a primary treatment for cancer with Dr. Jody E. Noé, MS, ND. Preregistration required.

Sat., Sep. 24, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $85/person; $75/members.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.

Helen Day Art Center

Inn, 42 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester. Info: mturner@ motivationhypnosis.com.

language ABSTRACT PAINTING W/ GALEN CHENEY: Find new approaches and attitudes toward your work that make painting a joyful experience, full of discovery. Sat. & Sun., Sep. 24-25, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $275/person; $250/ members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe.

Info: 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com.

AUTUMN LANDSCAPES IN PASTEL: Explore a vibrant color palette, color theory, pastel application and composition as you create a stunning autumn landscape. Materials list provided.

Instructor: Robert Carsten. Sat., Oct. 8, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $110/person; $85/members.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

hypnosis HYPNOVATIONS: CLINICAL HYPNOSIS BASIC WORKSHOP: (20 CEUs) Prepares clinicians to immediately begin incorporating hypnosis into their practice.

Registration: motivationhypnosis.com/trainingprograms.html.

Approved by American Society for Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) for Medical/Mental Health Clinicians such as licensed mental health counselors, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, psychologists, social workers and graduate students. For more information, please contact mturner@ motivationhypnosis. Seats limited; please reserve now!

Nov. 4-6. Location: Hampton

FRENCH FOR ALL! OH LA LA!: Fall is a fabulous time to start French, continue learning or soar into conversation class!

Wingspan Studio’s Madame Maggie, fluent French speaker longtime instructor, patiently and encouragingly provides tools to reach your goals. Having lived in Paris and West Africa, she brings myriad experiences to inspiring classes in beautiful atelier. Burlington’s funky South End Arts District. French Conversation: Weekly on Mon., Sep. 26-Dec. 7, 10-11:30 a.m.

Lunchtime Introductory French: Weekly on Mon., Sep. 26-Dec. 7, noon-1 p.m. Intermediate French: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 29-Dec. 10, 5-6:30 p.m. Adv. Beginner: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 29-Dec. 10, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Cost: $150/intro class; $200/other classes; 10 weeks; no classes week of Nov. 21. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington.

Info: Wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggies tandley@gmail.com, wingspan paintingstudio.com.

LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 10th year.

Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanish paravos@gmail.com, spanishwa terburycenter.com.

JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: The Japan-America Socie y of Vermont (JASV) is offering Beginning Japanese Language Courses, Levels 1 and 2, on the campus of Saint Michael’s College. Classes begin on Wed., Oct. 5 (Level 1) and Tue., Oct. 4 (Level 2), 6:30-8 p.m. Each class continues for 10 weekly sessions.

Main textbook: Japanese for Busy People I. Level 1 covers the first half of the book and Level 2, the second. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Pl., Colchester. Info: jasvlanguage@ gmail.com.

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safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them thoroughout life. IBJJF & CBJJ Certified Black Belt 6th Degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil! A 5-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Imitations!. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

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CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS: At Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, martial art is a way of life, not a sport. We offer the finest instruction in two complete internal Chinese martial arts — Taijiquan and Pudaoquan — at an affordable price. Our classes for adults have a friendly and conversational atmosphere, geared toward learning quickly and well. Fri., 6-7 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-noon & noon-1 p.m.; Tue., 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $5/ trial class; $15/1-hour class or $50 for 1 mo. of classes (incl. all offered). Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, 355-1301, info@wxcma.com, wxcma.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a Martial Arts Combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy Seals, CIA, FBI, Military Police and Special Forces. No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel

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

movement THE EVERYTHING SPACE: A somatic education and social justice studio curated by Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz.

Unleash your body’s intelligence and cultivate resilience.

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OILING THE HIP JOINTS WORKSHOP: Uwe will teach two Awareness through Movement lessons that will help you to discover your hip joints and explore their potential for movement.

The positi e effects will be felt in many daily activities like walking

and sitting and will improve your overall flexibili y. You do not need prior Feldenkrais experience. Sat., Sep. 24, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $30/2-hour workshop. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Suite 140, Shelburne. Info: 9850090, info@yogarootsvt.com, yogarootsvt.com.

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Exhibit in conjunction with Vermont Animation Festival

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GREEN MOUNTAIN MUSIC TOGETHER: Join us for Flute Song Collection this fall! Music classes for you and your children from 0 to 5. In the Burlington area. Tuition includes amazing resources to continue at home, CDs and songbooks, and access to an online community of families making music.

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USING THEATRE TO EXPLORE OUR STORIES IN ACTION: In this four-part class, participants will be able to explore their personal stories, dreams and desires through theatre methods designed to support healing. Using Playback ł eatre and other action and expressive art methods as the core, participants will learn to use theatre to transform personal stories into theatre pieces on the spot using movement, ritual, music and spoken improvisation.

Participants will share, learn to bring these stories to life, and learn to develop intuition, insight, creativity, empathy and effective communication skills.

Preregistration and deposit required. Oct. 3, 10 & 17 & Nov. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $100/ person. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail. com, journeyworksvt.com.

INTRODUCTION TO JUNG: A basic overview of Jung, the man, his thought and his legacy to psychology and our world, providing a primer of key Jungian concepts. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to understand one of the geniuses of the 20th century. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Weekly on Wed., Oct. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

psychotherapy LEARN TO DO EMDR THERAPY!: ł e renowned evidence-based approach for trauma and beyond.

EMDRIA approved: basic training and low-cost refresher course for licensed and license-eligible clinicians only. All consultation, CEU’s and payment plan included. Get details and registration online. Part 1: Oct. 28-30; Part 2: Jan. 20-22. Location: Howard Center, Burlington. Info: emdrconsulting.com.

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THE MASK IS THE MESSAGE: Journey the inner realms of shadow and light to craft a mask of magic and delight. Travel the

path between the worlds in a daylong ritual to bring forth your visions/illusions. ł e seen and unseen will inform your mask making with truths to hold dear and others to release. Sat., Oct. 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $120/ person; $215/2 people. Price incl. most materials. $50 deposit required (nonrefundable/to be applied to cost of workshop).

Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., Suite 9, Burlington. Info: Expressive Arts Burlington, Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com.

tai chi ART OF TAI CHI CHUAN: Beginners and ongoing students join together to learn and deepen their practice of this internal art, as passed through four generations of the Tung Lineage. Traditional instruction includes: Preliminary & Qigong exercises; Slow Set/ Sequence of Postures; Yin/ Yang philosophy & principles; & Push Hands Partner Practice.

An emphasis on relaxation, alignment, balance, concentration & harmonious flow is encouraged, generating well being for body, mind and spirit.

Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1.5hour class. Location: McClure Multigenerational Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave, Burlington. Info: White Cloud Arts, Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 453-3690, whitecloudarts@gmail.com, whitecloudarts.org.

BEGINNER TAI CHI IN BURLINGTON: At Long River Tai Chi Circle, we practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37 posture Yang-style form. ł e three pillars of our study are Form, Sensing Hands and Sword.

Patrick is a senior instructor at Long River in Vermont and New Hampshire and will be teaching

the classes in Burlington. Starts Oct. 5, 8-9 a.m. Cost: $65/mo.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: ł e 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: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being COME FEEL THE VIBE OPEN HOUSE: Come feel the vibration at our open house! Energy raising high vibration esoteric healing center, complimentary guided mediation with Julie Charland every hour! Enter to win complimentary tarot reading with B. Raffles and givea-ways! Check out our menu of services! Learn about our workshops! Meet our healing practitioners! Sat., Sep. 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Location: Center for Transformation, 448 Swanton Rd., Suite 300, St. Albans.

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SOUL MANDALAS: USING TRADITIONAL ARTS AND MEDITATION TO UNDERSTAND LIFE’S JOURNEY: Explore uses and tools of Kolam ground drawings and the use of the Native American Medicine Wheel to Help you find the inner compass, to guide you through times of stress and change; offer creative

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Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes.

We have daily heated classes with alignment constancy and kids’ summer camps. We hold teacher trainings at the 200and 500-hour levels. We are expanding to 2 new practice spaces in September to have more to engage families and kids. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student (1st week unlimited); $18/class or $140/10-class card; $12/ class for student or senior; or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Hana, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@ gmail.com, honestyogacenter. com.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers yoga classes for everyone from beginner to expert.

Choose from a wide variety of drop-in classes, series and workshops in Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Gentle, Vigorous, Yoga on the Lake, Yoga Wall, Therapeutics, and Alignment.

Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here.

Cost: $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/community classes.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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hange is the only true constant, as the rapid pace of technology perpetually underscores. But it can be difficult to accept. Brazilian singer-songwriter Luísa Maita, though, accepts it willingly. Change, particularly that fueled by technology, is the driving inspiration behind her new album, Fio da Memória,, which translates from Portuguese as “thread of memory.” That album drops on Friday, September 23. Touring North America in support of the record, Maita plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Monday, September 26.

The 34-year-old cantora is signed to Cumbancha, the globally minded record label based in Charlotte. Maita’s 2010 debut, Lero-Lero,, showcases a pristine, contemporary take on samba and bossa nova, two of Brazil’s signature musical styles. It’s bright, lyrical and rooted in tradition. Fio is nothing like that. Couched in electronic sounds and modern styles, it’s dark, edgy and untethered.

English is not Maita’s first language. In conversation, she puts her words together with careful consideration — though she comes off like a dreamer rather than someone struggling to translate her thoughts. In her Cumbancha bio, Maita explains Fio as being “about what Brazil is today aesthetically, in this electronic age.” Asked to clarify, she ponders the question before responding. “[It’s] very different from the first album,” she says, speaking by phone from Brazil. “I think it’s a mix of what is happening in the world.”

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Grand Point North is the embodiment of those feelings. And it’s a very special thing for us to have.

When it comes to music festivals, we have an embarrassment of riches here.

From Waking Windows in early May to Grand Point North in mid-September, hardly a weekend goes by without a festival or six happening somewhere in the state. And most of them are unique and great. Sometimes I think we take that for granted, that we’re a little spoiled — again, myself very much included. We have high expectations, especially for the bigger fests like WW, GPN, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, the Frendly Gathering, etc. And really,

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It seems it’s been an especially fertile spring and summer for local bands making records. This week alone, several big projects hit our eager ears.

These include DAVE KELLER’s new record Right Back Atcha (review on page 73) and KELLY RAVIN’s remarkable new solo album Bonneville (see page 38).

As we head into fall, a flood of highly anticipated recordings are on the way,

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Sitting on the rocks with friends watching the sunset or mingling with the crowd — even shooting the breeze with security — I was struck by how the sense of community has become one of my favorite parts of not just GPN but every festival. It would seem odd to say the music is secondary, and it’s not. But, at the very least, I’ll say that the atmosphere of our best festivals is as important as who’s playing. Really, there’s nothing else quite like the scene at GPN. So thanks again, Grace. See ya next year.

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Maita cites the internet age and the permeation of American pop music as contributing to the changes she sees in daily Brazilian life. But she doesn’t claim to be an authority, just an observer. “It’s just my point of view, what I listen [to] and what I see,” she says.

Maita’s earliest musical influencers were her parents, Myriam Taubkin and Amado Maita. Her mother has been producing prestigious live-music events in Brazil for more than 30 years. Her father, who died in 2005, owned and operated a parking lot in São Paulo, but his true passion was playing music. In 1972, he released his sole record, a self-titled LP of samba-infused jazz; it’s become a coveted prize for collectors around the world. (Asked by the Red Bull Music Academy to compile a list of underrated jazz records, Dutch electronic-jazz fusionist Jameszoo rounded out his selections with Amado Maita, though he said he couldn’t afford it.)

Maita cherishes her one copy of her father’s record. “[He] developed a different kind of samba. It’s very beautiful and spontaneous,” she says.

“It’s a very particular kind of music from that period of his life and what [was] going on in São Paulo.” The curious can find the album in its entirety on YouTube.

Maita grew up surrounded by a constant flow of creative energy. She describes her early life as a nonstop musical, social event. Going to shows and constantly meeting new people, always talking about music, was the norm in her household.

“It was not a classical family,” she says.

Her family’s nonconformity, though lively and stimulating, came with frequent life changes. Maita changed schools a half dozen times. Her family moved from Bixiga, a vibrant, diverse neighborhood of São Paulo, to the quieter outskirts of the city. Eventually, her parents divorced and her mother remarried, taking Maita even farther away, to the rural state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. But she doesn’t resent her transitory childhood.

“I didn’t feel I wanted things [to] stop changing,” she says. “I like when things change. I don’t like routine.”

In 2007, Maita began recording LeroLero. At the time, she felt it was quite modern. Of course, in 2007, iPhones were just hitting the market and hadn’t yet crammed the internet into every

crevice of existence. On Fio, the “electronic age” of which Maita speaks is fully realized.

Organic sounds are nowhere to be found on “Na Asa,” the opening track.

Maita’s sultry whispers are punctuated by rapid-fire trap beats and a throbbing bass line. It’s one of the most striking, if lyrically ambiguous, tracks on the record.

“I kind of invented a language in this song,” Maita explains. “You can understand it in Portuguese, but it’s not really Portuguese.”

In English, the title translates to “On Wings,” which offers a clue to the essence of the song.

“You have your power in your wings,” Maita says. “If you want to reinvent yourself, you can’t keep walking in your routine, in your normal life. You have to fly.”

Subsequent tracks on Fio retain elements of Maita’s former sound but filtered through a sharp, bleak palette.

The architecture of “Porão” feels unmistakably like samba, but the electronic bass and drums breed welcome unfamiliarity.

“Around You,” which is sung in English, combines synth bass and stringed bass, creating a heavy bottom as Maita chants in airy, haunting vocals, “Above you / inside you / around you / wherever you are.”

The impact of technology on culture and daily life is a primary theme on Fio da Memória. Maita also takes inspiration from other art forms. She singles out British photographer Martin Parr as her favorite contemporary artist, praising him for his ability to turn unconventional, even ugly, things into beautiful works of art. She also names the Academy Award-nominated Argentinean film Wild Tales, directed

by Damián Szifrón, as one of her favorite flicks. But Maita’s strongest influence, and one embodied profoundly by Fio, is simply change itself.

“Maybe all my albums will change a lot. I don’t know yet,” she says. “[I’d] like to do something different and find a new aesthetic, a new sound. I don’t have a style.” m

INFO Luísa Maita performs on Monday, September 26, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington. Fio da Memória is available at cumbancha.com starting Friday, September 23.

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Longtime readers likely know I’ve been a huge fan of Smith since her first record, Is Becomes Was, back in 2009. Her 2015 album, The Way It Is, recorded with MICHAEL CHORNEY, was not only one of the best records of that year, I believe it’s one of the best Vermont albums in the past decade, if not longer. Simply put, Smith is among the most talented songwriters ever to call VT home. Any time she comes back is reason to celebrate.

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Obviously, this column is the first place you turn to for breaking news on classical music in Vermont, right?

OK, that’s not even remotely true. But sometimes, you gotta class it up a bit and expand your intellectual horizons. Don’t worry, I’ll make it easy on you.

Bassist REED MATHIS is best known for his time in BILLY & THE KIDS, JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY and TEA LEAF GREEN. But lately he’s taken to rearranging BEETHOVEN symphonies for rock bands. Nifty, huh?

He recently released an album featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 8. And he deployed some talented friends to round out his rock orchestra, including ANDREW BARR, MARCO BENEVENTO, JOE RUSSO, GALACTIC’s STANTON MOORE, and some guys named MIKE GORDON and PAGE MCCONNELL. This Saturday, September 24, Mathis brings a touring version of that band to Nectar’s to perform No. 3 in its entirety.

The band includes PRIMUS’ JAY LANE, RAQ and KUNG FU’s TODD STOOPS, TLG’s COCHRANE MCMILLAN, and CLAY WELCH.

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Speaking of new records — and, I suppose, Grace Potter — former NOCTURNALS guitarist SCOTT TOURNET is releasing a new album this week with his new band, ELEKTRIC VOODOO. The self-titled record drops on Wednesday, September 28.

I’ve only given it a cursory listen, but I like what I hear so far. It’s funky and weird in ways that probably couldn’t have passed muster in the Nocturnals.

Tournet’s underrated 2013 solo album, Ver La Luz, is probably my favorite GPN-related release. The new record doesn’t sound much like that album, but it’s pretty cool.

In a recent email, Tournet writes that he has no immediate plans to play Vermont, but that it’s likely to happen before too long. We’ll have a full review of the record in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can give it a listen at elektricvoodoo.com.

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In addition to Ravin and Keller’s records, you should know about another cool album coming out this week: Demon Eyes from LAKE SUPERIOR. Since last we heard from LS, the Montpelier outfit has expanded from a duo to a trio, with the addition of bassist JASON PAPPAS to the core duo of guitarist/ vocalist PETE RAHN and drummer JEFF THOMSON. We’ll run a full review soon, but for now know that Pappas’ low end adds some welcome muscle to Lake Superior’s shaggy, psychedelic take on garage-blues. Rahn — who is now based in Brooklyn — has really upped his songwriting game. Inevitably, bluesy guitar-drums garage duos elicit comparisons to the WHITE STRIPES, and in the band’s early output that might have been valid. Not so much anymore.

Their fuller sound allows for more sonic variation, and LS have ventured into headier 1960s garage-psych territory. I dig it. If you think you might, too, check out Demon Eyes at lakesuperiorband. bandcamp.com. And maybe swing

by Lake Superior’s release show at Positive Pie in Montpelier this Friday, September 23. Local punks BLACK RABBIT open.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Bloodshot Bill (blues rock), 8:30 p.m., $7/12.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Bob Levinson Trio (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Papa Graybeard Blues (blues, folk), 6 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 7 p.m., free. The Brevi y Thin (acoustic), 9 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Comedy Hosted

by Corey Flynn with Collen Doyle, Brianna Doe and Special Guests, 8 p.m., donation.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with Disco Phantom, 6 p.m., free. Mammal Dap, Aleck & Ivy (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5.18+.

An Evening of Mozart, Bartók, and Crumb — D. Thomas Toner & Nicola Cannizzaro, percussion; David Feurzeig, Paul Orgel, & Sylvia Parker, piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9/24 Le Vent du Nord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/30 Pacifica Quartet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/21 Las Cafeteras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10/28

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LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit Trio, 7 p.m., free.

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

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JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: The om Cleary Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Helen Hummel (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Aquatic Underground DJs (house, trap), 10 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Girl Crush Comedy Showcase, 8:30 p.m., donation.

RADIO BEAN: The olff Sisters (folk rock), 8:30 p.m. Skerryvore (Celtic rock), 10 p.m.

RED SQUARE: Ira Friedman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. John Lackard Blues Band, 7:30 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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

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

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Angel Olsen, Rodrigo Amarante (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15/17.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Denzel Curry, Boogie (hip hop), 8:30 p.m., $17/20.

CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Timothy James Blue & Beyond, 7 p.m., free.

DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Country DJ, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

LA PUERTA NEGRA: The Parakeet (doo-wop), 8:30 p.m., donation.

HALVORSON’S UPSTREET CAFÉ: The Joe Moore Band (funk, soul), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Jazz Night, 6 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free.

Grass Fed Mule (bluegrass), 9:30 p.m., $2/5.18+.

SWEET MELISSA’S: BYOV Thursday , 3 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

HATCH 31: Bristol Folk Session, 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Lightning Lucien Hebert (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Ian Fitzgerald (folk), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

Let’s Be Leonard (jam), 11 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Short Jam (improv), 6:30 p.m., free. Napoleon (improv), 7:30 p.m., $5. Sean Patton, 8:30 p.m., $10.

OAK45: Bird Full of Trees (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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SMITTY’S PUB: Team Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: The Pa ts, Phil Yates & the Affiliate (alt-country, rock), 7 p.m., free.

ARTSRIOT: LVL UP, Eskimeaux (indie), 7:20 p.m., $12/14.

SIDEBAR: Ethan Snyder Presents (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

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

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Kermit (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8, 10 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Donna Jorge, 7 p.m., free.

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

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CITY LIMITS: Throttle Thursday with DJ Gold, 9 p.m., free.

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memories and complex feelings of love, hate and even dread that he sings about on the record. He seems for all the world like a man ready to get some things off his mind, things he’s been chewing on indoors for a while.

The music doesn’t quite maintain the same continuity of theme, though.

Luther is composed of some of the Green Mountains’ finest musicians and producers: Crowther’s brother, Justin, and their Waylon Speed bandmate Chad Hammaker, along with Brian Granfors,

Ben Collette and Rob O’Dea. And they sound pristine. But the EP struggles to find a consistent feel.

Maybe it’s the reminiscent nature of the songs, but at times Luther seems too passive. “All That We Want,” a sweet missive on love surrounded by less happy songs, has a cool little clockwork beat chorus punctuated by staccato guitar stabs. But with oversimplified lyrics such as “You are the one for me, can’t you see,” this train doesn’t quite reach the station.

“Tucson” opens with a laid-back octave guitar run and features some of the EP’s stronger lyrics. “All is lost, except for the way we fall,” Crowther sings over a Wildflowers-era Tom Petty slow burn. Ostensibly the song is about defeat, but the band leaves room for a comeback with swirling organ and an anthemic guitar solo.

After the aptly named “Pickup,” which suffers from the same lethargy

“All That We Want” couldn’t quite shake, Luther takes a promising foray into more country-like settings with “Bad Smoking Seat.” It ends with a belated surge on “In the End,” a rocker about a late family dog. Luther are finally shaken out of their frostbitten restraint, yet the song maintains some of that overarching melancholy.

In the album’s liner notes, Crowther writes that the recording was “an exercise in letting things be what they are.” That sometimes works for and against Luther. For all the record’s charms, it could sometimes use a push off from familiar shores into murkier waters.

Luther by Luther is available at Pure Pop, Burlington Records and online at luther3.bandcamp.com.

Proceeds from the album benefit the Champlain Elementary School Record Project.

honest, the image evokes all the artistic heft of a Cialis commercial. But it does clue the listener in to what’s in store on the record. And that is slinky, soulful baby-makin’ music.

Perhaps emboldened by newfound romantic freedom, Keller is out to seduce. And, by and large, he succeeds.

The lightness in his writing stands in contrast to the emotional weight of Soul Changes. Whether he’s singing about finding true love, as on “Deeper Than the Eye Can See,” “She’s Just

Katie” and “Willing to Learn,” or about a late-night rendezvous as on … well, lots of other tracks, Keller howls with an inviting, brassy swagger. One school of thought suggests the worst thing a songwriter can do is get happy. And in some cases, such as “Forever Summer,” Keller’s renewed breeziness borders on schmaltz. But more often he strikes a charming balance.

The album is immaculately engineered and produced. Horns and strings burst and bloom with aplomb — the Mo’ Sax Horns (Joe Moore, Jessica Friedman and Terry Youk) are dynamic.

Backing vocals flit and flirt around Keller’s soaring exhortations. His core band is as tight as ever. The album was recorded earlier this year at Lane Gibson Recording and Mastering in Charlotte.

But at certain moments it sounds like it was made in Memphis in the 1960s.

The focus of Right Back Atcha is Keller, and rightly so. He has long

been regarded as one of Vermont’s elite vocalists and guitar players, and the new record will only cement that reputation. Keller is still a commanding, compelling vocalist, unleashing runs that few other local singers would even attempt. But he also benefits from the wisdom of experience. Some of his best performances are his most understated.

“You Make it Easy,” for example, succeeds with swooning simplicity.

Keller is clearly in a happier place personally. That comes through loud and clear on Right Back Atcha. He feels good. And it’s a good bet that, after hearing his latest, his fans will, too.

Right Back Atcha by Dave Keller is available at davekeller.com. Keller plays two release shows this week: on Friday, September 23, at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier, and on Saturday, September 24, at the FlynnSpace in Burlington.

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Everyone in Vermont knows how it goes. There comes a point, usually sometime in late January, when the glow of the snow at night stops being beautiful. Winter becomes an antagonist, a jailer. You shut yourself off and stay in shelter, eventually ruminating on other times you felt this miserable.

It only takes a few listens to the selftitled debut from Burlington’s Luther to feel little premonitions of those isolations. A sort of solo project from Noah Crowther (Waylon Speed), the six-song EP sounds like it was exhaled in a puff of frozen breath and cigarette smoke.

On the album cover, Crowther sits on a couch covered with a multicolored crocheted afghan. Photographs surround him, suggesting the very

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Dave Keller has lightened up. The Vermont bluesman’s 2014 album Soul Changes was a deeply personal work, written and recorded in the aftermath of the end of his marriage and the death of his father. Three years later, Keller appears to have exorcised his demons and emerged from his darkness stronger and happier. The evidence is his sixth and latest full-length, Right Back Atcha, which comes out this week.

To get a sense that Keller is in a better emotional place, look no farther than the album’s cover. Keller stands in a rolling Vermont field with a linen shirt unbuttoned to his chest. He’s holding his electric guitar and looking suggestively at blond woman in a red dress, who appears to be lying in wait for some splendor in the grass. To be

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Whitley, makes full-force, sultry alt-pop with a bad case of the blues. In 2015, nearly a quarter century after her father’s minor hit “Big Sky Country,” Whitley released her second full-length album, Porta Bohemica. Though her tracks are mostly guitar driven, she’s just as comfortable pouring her heart out to piano accompaniment. Her style is melancholy, slightly gritty and lives in the company of Clare Maguire, Joan as Police Woman and Annie Lennox. Trixie Whitley performs on Saturday, September 24, at Signal Kitchen in Burlington. Locals MICHAEL CHORNEY TRIO and AMELIA DEVOID open.

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SIDEBAR: The Good Pa ts (funk), 10 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: DJ Stevie B, 9 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Diane Jean & the Clever Girls (country), 8:30 p.m., free.

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VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tone Bell, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20.

NAKED TURTLE: Turtle Thursday with 95 riple X (pop), 9 p.m., NA.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Tar Iguana, Love Port (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Bryce & Cohen Bluegrass, 7 p.m., free. SATTA Sound (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Brett Hughes (country), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Ramblin’ Dan Stevens (blues), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Grippo Funk Band, DJ Rekkon, 10 p.m., $7.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free.

The Space Betwee (rock), 7 p.m., free. Ben Patton (rock), 8 p.m., free. Izzy Heltai and Secret Creature (folk rock), 9 p.m., free. Daughter Vision (synth pop), 10 p.m., free. Builder of the House (folk), 11:30 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Shrimptunes (rock), 4 p.m., free.

Fear Nuttin Band (reggae), 7 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: D Jay Baron (house), 9 p.m., $5.

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RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Greensky Bluegrass, Fruition (bluegrass), 8 p.m.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Catie Curtis (rock), 7:30 p.m., $20/23.

MONKEY HOUSE: Diet Cig, Free Cake for Every Creature, Ellen Degenerates, DJ Disco Phantom (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Shane’s Apothecary (rock), 5 p.m. Cyn City (rock), 9 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Shake!, 9:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Phileep (folk), 6 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Lake Milk, Red Admiral (rock), 9 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Bueno Comedy Showcase, 8:30 p.m., $6.

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Lake Superior, Black Rabbit (rock), 10 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Dave Keller Album Release (soul), 8:30 & 10 p.m., $10.

WHAMMY BAR: Christine Malcolm Band (folk, country), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Eames Brothers Band (blues, rock), 9 p.m., free.

RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: DJ Steve B (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Let’s Be Leonard (jam), 9 p.m., $3.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: The Nightengale , 9 p.m., donation.

northeast kingdom

WHAMMY BAR: Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

JASPER’S TAVERN: Classic Rewind (country, rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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

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MOOGS PLACE: Gary Wade (acoustic), 9 p.m., free.

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

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Rumblecat (rock), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Glass Onion (Tragically Hip tribute), 9:30 p.m., $5.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Sammich (funk, jam), 9 p.m., $3.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Colorway (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

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JASPER’S TAVERN: Good Time Music DJ, 9 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Hornbeam (rock), 8 p.m.

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CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Ana D’Leon (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

ARTSRIOT: Kelly Ravin, Maryse Smith (country), 8:30 p.m., $8.

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Funhouse with DJ Rob Douglas and DJ Chia (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Rowan (Celtic), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Reid (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Milan to Minsk (art pop), 9 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Ramblin’ Dan Stevens (blues), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Jesse & Dave (folk pop), 7 p.m., free.

Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven, Cosmosis Jones (jamtronica), 9 p.m., $15.

RADIO BEAN: Daniel Kushnir (blues, folk), 6 p.m., free. That irginia (folk), 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: The Fu l Cleveland (yacht rock), 7 p.m., free. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Baron (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Gordon Goldsmith (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Dave Villa (hip-hop, top 40), 10 p.m., free.

SIGNAL KITCHEN: Trixie Whitley, Michael Chorney Trio, Amelia Devoid (alt-pop), 8:30 p.m., $15.

SMITTY’S PUB: Cooie & Robin (rock, blues), 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tone Bell, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Marvel Years (glitch hop), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

MONKEY HOUSE: Waking Windows and Section Sign Records Present: Violet Ultraviolet Record Release Party with Ryan Power, Invisible Homes (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

OAK45: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Mittletöner: The Consortium (electronic), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3.

THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Old Sky Country Band with Andrew Stearns and Shay Gestal (Americana), 4 p.m., free.

Isaac Hill (folk), 7 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 8:30 p.m., free. NVXO (jam), 10 p.m., free. Doom Service, Unwelcome Guests, Mr. Doubtfir (punk), 11:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Blackmarket U Presents SideBar Sundays (hip-hop, EDM), 6 p.m., free. Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Scene Jam (improv), 5:30 p.m., free. Mark Forward, 7 p.m., $15.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Slow Mass (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3/8.18+.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Vermont’s Next Star (open mic), 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Kelly Ravin (country), 6:30 p.m., free. Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., free.

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

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: South Town Bluegrass, 7 p.m., free.

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Real Deal (R&B, soul), 9 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Collin Cope & Chris Page (folk, rock), 8 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Gumbo Ya Ya (rock, world), 8 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Jiggawaltz (progressive rock), 10 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (open jam), 10:30 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN: Two Aerials (indie pop), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Meku (Cumbia), 9:30 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Ron Stoppable (reggae, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes 9/19/16 3:33 PM(standup), 7 p.m., free.

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chittenden county MONKEY HOUSE: Kelly Ravin (country), 5:30 p.m., free.

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

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

box keyboard sounds. Catch Milan to Minsk on Saturday, September 24, at Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Seth Yacovone (blues), 6 p.m., free. Fatty Shay & Friends (house), 10 p.m., free.

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

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): CVS Jazz Night, 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: An Evening with Big Something (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5.18+.

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RADIO BEAN: Luke McCartin (alt-country), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Rick Redington & the Luv (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Rowan (Celtic), 7 p.m., free.

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THE GRYPHON: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club, 7 p.m., free.

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

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Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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risten M. Watson and Mary Admasian’s collaborative installation “The SHE Project: Part I” feels barely contained by its site — the small gallery in the University of Vermont’s Living/Learning Center. The exhibit is packed with many hundreds of carefully grouped and arranged cosmetics bottles and containers, beauty aids of all kinds, hair-dye cans and even locks of cut hair, both colored and natural.

These seem to multiply in the installation’s many mirrors, included in nearly every arrangement. Indeed, exhibit viewers also become viewers of themselves, so rarely can they escape a glimpse of their own faces.

That aspect has particular relevance for women visiting the exhibit, for “SHE” addresses the overwhelming pressure on females to look pretty.

According to the artists’ statements, that pressure — not a new one — has reached titanic proportions in the era of social media, which traffic in selfies and other images.

Several works stage realistic scenes in which self-beautification might happen.

“Am I Pretty Enough Yet?” consists of a dressing table crowded with cosmetics, its mirror bristling with bottles of nail polish. Most tableaux such as this one are Watson’s. Admasian’s less literal works address women’s self-image and fulfillment using an entirely different palette of materials. The trio of “Third Eye Blind,” “Love Thy Self” and “Blessed” consists of oval-framed mirrors bound with barbed wire and screened in sheer white silk, which is punctured in places by the barbs.

The staged scenes will look both familiar and surreal to many women. “Life in the Cabinet” is a circa-1990s vanity with two open medicine cabinets. Each is collaged with social-media photos showing how cosmetically achieved beauty is marketed to women throughout their lives, starting as early as age 5.

From that age, represented by the lower left-hand cabinet, we move clockwise through the milestones of college, marriage and motherhood to grandmotherhood on the lower right. Shelves of ageappropriate hair, skin and nail products accompany each stage.

“R flekt” by Kristen M. Watson

MADE OF OUTDATED BEAUTY AIDS, THE STRUCTURE SPEAKS TO THE TOXICITY

WOMEN HAVE LONG ENDURED TO CONFORM TO STANDARDS OF BEAUTY. While the artists insist the show leaves judgment to the viewer, these works strike a sinister note, which becomes explicit in the back wall installation. The wall is lined with mirrors densely covered with handwriting in colorful lipstick. Closer inspection reveals this to be a running list of chemicals used in the unregulated cosmetics industry. Only items beginning with A through P fit on the mirrors; the rest may appear in a future “Part II.” The words are difficult to read on the reflective surfaces, and the observer’s eye eventually

goes to his or her own face. If female, it is most likely coated in such chemicals.

Admasian’s powerful “Lost Innocence” captures the show’s only image of unaugmented beauty: an exotic Charaxes butterfly caught between layers of netting in a barbed-wire frame.

This relatively small work is grouped with two wall-hung works made of mirrors and beauty products bundled with ornamental grasses, titled “100% Natural I” and “II”; and a yoga mat topped with wooden prayer beads. The ensemble raises the specter of the possibility that nature packaged for consumption could

replace actual nature, preserved after death in “Lost Innocence.” The new spiritual fulfillment, it implies, must be purchased.

Watson’s inspiration for the show was social media. According to her introductory remarks, she has noticed that she is now viewing, and therefore scrutinizing, images of herself more than ever before.

The multimedia artist, well versed in the art of email blasts, Facebook posts and Twitter, invited the older Admasian, a marketing consultant and equally adept social-media user, to join her in creating the show.

Yet “Part I” references social media directly only in “Life in the Cabinet.”

(Another connection: The show’s materials, all donated, were gathered through Facebook, Front Porch Forum and other media.) Otherwise, the show has a quality of timelessness. Its familiarity raises the question: When have women not applied makeup while sitting at a dressing table?

Indeed, the historical reach of such pressures is signaled in Watson’s

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ERIC HIBIT: “R*O*Y*G*B*V,” a solo exhibition of paintings illustrating three approaches by the New York artist. Artist talk: Wednesday, September 21, 5:30-6:30 p.m. September 21-October 7. Info, 656-2014. Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘SARGENT TO BASQUIAT: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT ALUMNI COLLECTIONS’: An exhibition of works on loan that span the late 19th to the early 21st centuries and represent some of the most influential styles of the last 130 years. Reception: ° ursday, September 22, 5:30 p.m. September 22-December 16. Info, 656-8582. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington.

SUNDAE MONTH: Work from the indie videogame studio, founded by recent Champlain College graduates. Reception: ° ursday, September 22, 5 p.m. September 22-October 12. Info, cthompson@ champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

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‘FREAKS, RADICALS & HIPPIES: COUNTERCULTURE IN 1970S VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the influx of people and countercultural ideas to the state, from communes to organic agriculture, progressive politics to health care reform, alternative energy to women’s and gay rights. September 24-December 30. $5-20. Info, 479-8500. Vermont Heritage Galleries in Barre.

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‘DINOSAUR REVOLUTION’: An interactive maze and hands-on learning experience that investigates all things dinosaur. September 24-January 1. Info, 6492200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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BRENDA GARAND: “Touching at a Distance,” sculptures and paintings made with cold-rolled steel, flood clay, wool from the Johnson Woolen Mills, porcupine quills, walnut ink and black felt paper. September 23-December 15. Info, 498-8438.

White River Gallery at BALE in South Royalton.

“Life in the Cabinet” by Kristen M. Watson

INFO “° e SHE Project: Part I,” on view through October 28 at Living/Learning Gallery, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

COMMUNITY MURAL: Kids, families and community members are invited to help paint a new public mural. Walker Contemporary, Waitsfield, Sunday, September 25, 10 a.m. Info, 617-842-3332.

FIGURE DRAWING CLASS: Fine-tune your drawing skills and observational eye by working with a live nude model. Benches and boards provided, BYO materials. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, ° ursday, September 22, 6-8 p.m. $15; $10 for members. Info, 775-0356.

GREENLEAF STUDIO/VTCELTIC OPENING: Artist and musician Reagh Greenleaf Jr. welcomes the community to his new studio, home of Vermont Celtic designs. Greenleaf will discuss his creative process and give a 20-minute bodhrán/folk song demonstration. Greenleaf Studio, Bristol, ° ursday, September 22, 6:30-9 p.m. Info, 779-4114.

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POP-UP EXHIBITION: STEVE COSTELLO: “Eyes on Nature,” an exhibition of wildlife images by the Rutland photographer. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Friday, September 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, September 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 775-0356.

TALK: AMY NICOLE SCHWARTZ: Lecture by the design “troublemaker” and Cards Against Humanity creative director. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, Monday, September 26, 3:30-5 p.m. Info, 383-6616.

TALK: CAROL WALKER: ° e world-renowned equine photographer, author and wild-horse advocate speaks about photographing wild horses. ° e presentation will feature images of Wyoming’s Adobe Town herd of wild mustangs, taken over the last 11 years. ° e Center for America’s First Horse, Johnson, Saturday, September 24, 7-8:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 730-5400.

TALK: ‘HERSTORY’ IN CIVIL WAR QUILTS: Quilt historian Lynn Bassett discusses the quilts that women created during the Civil War to declare their patriotism and support their fighting menfolk.

Bennington Museum, Saturday, September 24, 3 p.m. $7; $5 for members. Info, 447-1571.

‘THE TENT OF CASUALLY OBSERVED PHENOLOGIES’: Contemporary artist James Leonard uses adapted tarot cards to help others process what he calls “overwhelming climate anxiety,” by giving readings inside a handmade tent. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, ° ursday, September 22, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Info, 863-2345.

VERMONT FINE FURNITURE AND WOODWORKING FESTIVAL: An event that celebrates Vermont’s woodworking artisan heritage with farm, forest, furniture and fine woodworking. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, September 24-25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 457-2355.

WATCH PARTY: OPENING OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: Watch the opening ceremonies of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and learn about local organizations that preserve the history of African Americans in Vermont. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, Saturday, September 24, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Info, 654-7980.

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ART HOP GROUP SHOW: Exhibition featuring works by more than 30 local artists. ° rough November 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

AUSTIN SCRIVENS: Illustrations by the Vermont artist. ° rough September 30. Info, 865-6227.

Uncommon Grounds Coffee and Tea in Burlington.

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BESSIE DRENNAN CELEBRATION: An exhibition of paintings by the late Woodbury artist, who took up painting in her seventies. South Woodbury Church, ° ursday, September 22, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, September 23, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, September 24, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, September 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 472-6292.

PLEIN AIR PAINTING WORKSHOP: Daniel Gottsegen leads a demonstration and discussion of how to experiment with different picture formats, combine imagery with text, incorporate nontraditional material and explore multiple mediums and points of view. Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Saturday, September 24, 1-6 p.m. Info, 952-1056.

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PLEIN AIR PAINTING FESTIVAL: Second annual outdoor painting event, featuring a painting competition, art sale, exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations and talks by artists including Julia Purinton and Katherine Lovell. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee. ° rough September 23. Info, 359-5001.

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Melissa Meyer coined the term in the 1970s to describe the uncredited origins of collage, among other artistic endeavors, in women’s historical tendency to collect and piece together odds and ends. Watson’s statement, meanwhile, wonders at the persistence of beauty expectations in “the postfeminist era.”

Perhaps the only “post-” this exhibit comfortably embraces is the gleefully postmodern appropriation of a hegemonic industry’s products. Admasian’s and Watson’s works are available for up to $1,100 each.

PENTANGLE LIGHT GARDEN: ° e Woodstock Green is transformed into an illuminated Light Garden of sculptural garden plots designed by local artists and featuring creative uses of light. Woodstock Village Green, Friday, September 23, 6:30-10:30 p.m. and Saturday, September 24, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

Info, 457-3981.

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“Objects of Industry (Pin Up),” an assemblage of colorful plastic hair curlers stacked like a group of industrial smokestacks. Made of outdated beauty aids, the structure speaks to the toxicity women have long endured to conform to standards of beauty. Meanwhile, the circular cutouts of pinups painted by the midcentury advertising artist Gil Elvgren, visible at the base of each stack, illustrate the promised payoff.

“SHE” raises the question of the role of feminism in the installation’s conception. The artists’ approaches are nearly polar opposites in this regard. By calling the works “femmages,” Admasian reaches back to the height of the Second Wave: Artists Miriam Schapiro and

NANCY TAPLIN: A solo exhibition of paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Saturday, September 24, 4 p.m. September 21-October 22.

Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

‘LOCAL COLOR’: Annual autumn group exhibition of landscapes by local artists. Reception: Friday, September 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ArtisTree Gallery, South Pomfret, September 23-October 22. Info, 457-3500.

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CARLY KEMP: “Peace of My Heart,” paintings that reflect the a tist’s love of Burlington. Through September 30. Info, 383-1505. New Moon Café in Burlington.

‘A CELEBRATION OF UPPER VALLEY ARTISTS’: A group exhibition of works by Ben Gitchel, M.L. Gitchel, Roger Goldenberg, Kit Hawkins, Wendy Briggs Powell and Joe Saginor. Through September 24. Info 603-448-3117. Pompanoosuc Mills in Burlington.

DAVID ROBY JR.: A selection of black-and-white and color images from a lifetime by the Burlington photographer. Through October 21. Info, 861-3155.

Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘DIRECTORS’ DIGRESSIONS’: An exhibition of works presented by two prominent Vermont arts leaders: Janie Cohen, director of the Fleming Museum of Art, and Sara Katz, assistant director of Burlington City Arts. Through N vember 26. Info, 652-4510.

Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

DYLAN C. HEBERT: New paintings by the Burlington artist, whose works combine surrealism with an investigation of the present-day role of the icon.

Through September 30. Info, 865-6223. Batte y Street Jeans in Burlington.

EBEN MARKOWSKI: “Gravity,” a life-size steel sculpture of a female Asian elephant inspired by the tragedy of the global ivory trade. Through Decembe 10. FACULTY SHOW: Annual survey of new works by 11 Champlain College art, design and core faculty members. Through October 1. Info, cthompson champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

EL TOWLE: “Works From Nature,” landscapes and animal portraits by the Vermont artist. Through Octobe 31. Info, 540-8333. Sequoia Salon in Burlington.

‘FIRST 50’: Community-sourced exhibition featuring the first 50 works submitted. Through Octobe 3. Info, sarah@seaba.com. Info, 864-1557. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

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‘FIXED/FLUXED’: In recognition of the Seven Below Arts initiative, this group exhibition brings together 11 former residents for an initiative meant to “de-emphasize the gallery space as a place for fixed, final products and reposition it as a plac for transitory work and evolving ideas.” Through October 1. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

JANET MCKENZIE: “Honoring Eadie and Chuck Templin: The A t of Janet McKenzie,” a solo exhibition of the Vermont artist’s original paintings that celebrate the bond between women, the Madonna and Child, and the iconic individual. Through November 6. Info, 864-0471. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington.

KATIE LOESEL: Works on paper that use abstraction, color and layering to explore ideas of geological history, microscopic surfaces and rocky formations. Through October 31. Info, 859-9222.

The Ga lery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

MICHAEL METZ: “Twins,” an exhibition of color photographs from the fall 2015 Twins Parade in Montréal. Through September 30. Info, 598-6982.

Mirabelles Café in Burlington.

MIMI MAGYAR: “Obsessive Compulsive Dzines,” an exhibition of works in graph paper and ink. Through October 31. Info, 301-938-8981. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

‘NEW REGISTRATIONS’: Group exhibition curated by gallery director Rob Hunter and collector Mark Waskow, featuring prints made using nontraditional techniques. Artists are John Anderson, David Bumbeck, Bill Darling, Bill Davison, Jeff Feld, Leslie Fry, Philip Godenschwager, Rick Hayes, Carol MacDonald, Michele Ratte, Sue Schiller, Daryl Storrs, Claire Van Vliet and Carleen Zimbalatti. Through September 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

NEYSA RUSSO: “Scenes From an Orchard,” felt tapestries featuring creative design composition and a dramatic use of color. Through September 30.

Info, 439-9875. Feldman’s Bagels in Burlington.

THE POPPYCLOCK COLLECTIVE: Collaborative mixed-media works by Burlington artists Haley

Bishop Rockwood and DeAnna Kerley. Through N vember 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

‘THE SHE PROJECT, PART I’: Interactive installation by Mary Admasian and Kristen M. Watson, featuring works that honor the art tradition of femmage and explore image, self-worth, sexual power and personal branding in the social-media age. Through October 28. Info, 578-0300.

University of Vermont Living/ Learning Center in Burlington.

SOUTH END ART HOP ORIGINAL JURIED SHOW: The 24th annual group exhibition, featuring 35 works curated by Joe Amrhein.

Through September 30. Info, 859 9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

STELLA MARRS: “In Her Shoes,” a solo exhibition of new painting, drawing and multimedia works by the Burlington artist. Through October 25. Info, joseph@ newcitygalerie.org. Info, 355-5440.

New City Galerie in Burlington.

TESS ELIZABETH HOLBROOK: “Childhood Home,” a collection of oil paintings from a child’s point of view. Through October 31. Info tiztess@gmail.com. Info, 578-9687.

Computers for Change in Burlington.

‘WOMEN IN THE MEN’S ROOM’: Collaborative exhibition featuring sculptures by Susan Raber Bray, Leslie Fry and Riki Moss, and paintings by Janet Fredericks and Pamela Murphy.

Through September 30. Info, 864-2088. A tspace 106 at the Men’s Room in Burlington.

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ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: Group exhibition of 15 images by seven Chittenden County artists: Ann Barlow, John Berkey, Meg Berlin, Philip Galiga, Justin Gonyea, Boston Neary and Natalie Stultz. Through September 30. Info, 985-9511.

Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

‘GRANDMA MOSES: AMERICAN MODERN’: This exhibition co-organized with Bennington Museum showcases more than 60 paintings, works on paper and related materials by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, aka Grandma Moses, alongside work by other 19th- and 20th-century folk and modern artists. Through October 20. DOMINIQUE EHRMANN: “Once Upon A Quilt,” an exhibition of 16 quilts by the Québec-based fiber a tist. Through October 31.

GEORGE SHERWOOD: “Wind, Waves and Light,” an outdoor exhibition of eight large-scale, stainless steel kinetic sculptures. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

‘FUTURE WAVE’: A group exhibition featuring the work of Robert Bent, Karen Henderson, Madeleine Hopkins, Jane Ann Kantor and Jon Young. Through October 29. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘GRITTY HAVANA’: Alternative black-and-white darkroom photographs of Havana by Jordan Douglas. Through October 31. Info, 336-2126. Sweet Simone’s in Richmond.

‘IN LAYERS: THE ART OF THE EGG’: A group exhibition of 20-plus artists whose works focus on the beauty, biology and essence of eggs. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

KATHRENA RAVENHORST-ADAMS: “An Artist’s Window on Nature,” a solo exhibition of watercolor landscapes by the Northfield a tist. Through Octobe 8. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

LYNN ANN POWERS: Watercolors of stained-glass windows, representing changing seasons and traditional designs. Through September 30. Info, 879-4988. Village Green Florist in Essex Junction.

‘East Meets West’

Curated by Vanessa Compton and Anna

Weisenfeld, this 15-artist group exhibition at Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro marks 2016 as the National Park Service’s centennial. Collectively, the works on view are not only meant to celebrate the natural splendors of the United States, but also to be in dialogue with “the pervading myths of the American frontier” — including the systematic abuse of Native Americans. Chuck Trotsky’s (aka Ben Barnes) acrylic “Hashtag Ghostdance” plays darkly on the crushed 19th-century indigenous religious movement to expel European settlers through ritual. The painting features the text “#ghostdance” emblazoned across a portrait of Sitting Bull, who was killed in 1890 at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation — a site now reactivated as a place of Native resistance. Through October 13. Pictured: “Loco Motive,” collage by W. David Powell.

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‘BIG ART, BOLD VISION’: An exhibition curated by Janet Van Fleet featuring enlargements of works by 16 artists in mall windows. Artists include Rosalind Daniels, Anna Dibble, Janet Fredericks, Jessa Gilbert, Steven P. Goodman, Wendy James, Mark Lorah, Mickey Myers, Maggie Neale, Elizabeth Nelson, Adelaide Murphy Tyrol, Arthur Schaller, Jayne Shoup, David Smith, Kathy Stark and Frank Woods. Through N vember 26. Info, janetvanfleet fairpoint.net. Info, 229-4151. Berlin Mall.

f CHUCK BOHN AND FREDERICK RUDI: “Two Views

From Hollister Hill,” landscape paintings. Reception: Friday, September 30, 6 p.m. Through N vember 5.

Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield DONALD SAAF & JULIA ZANES: “Parables,” an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and marionettes by the Brattleboro artists. Through October 9. Info, 223-6613. The Kent Museum in Calais

f GIULIANO CECCHINELLI: “Rock Solid XVI,” a career-spanning exhibition that includes a variety of sculptures, models and sketches by the master sculptor, who was trained in Carrara, Italy, as a young boy. f PAUL CALTER: Paintings and daily sketches by the Vermont artist. f SHANNON LEE GILMOUR: “In Our Hands,” a solo exhibition of environmental art and architectural works made using postconsumer plastic. Reception: Thursda ,

September 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through N vember 5. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

‘HANDCRAFTED VERMONT’: New handcrafted, intricately detailed furniture from 17 members of the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers. Through October 28. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier.

HEIDI CHAMBERLAIN: Monoprints and collages by the Vermont artist. Through September 30. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelie .

HERBERT A. DURFEE JR.: Black-and-white photographs taken in Europe in the early 1950s by the late Burlington physician. Through October 31.

Info, 595-4866. The Hi e in Middlesex.

IRIS GAGE: Handcrafted botanical art by the apothecary owner. Through December 31. Info, 223-0043. Grian Herbs Apothecary in Montpelier.

JASON GALLIGAN-BALDWIN: “Choose Your Own Adventure,” mixed-media works that incorporate ephemera from the artist’s youth. Through Septembe 29. Info, 595-0605. Local 64 in Montpelier.

MICHAEL SMITH: “¿Hungry?” paintings of foods such as Wonderbread, chicken and blueberry pie.

Through N vember 1. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.

MICHAEL T. JERMYN: Images featuring a mysterious caped man in black by the Montpelier

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photographer. Through September 30. Info, 225-6012. Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH: “Rodz Series,” photographs taken at car shows in Vermont and New York over the past decade. Through September 30. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

RENÉE BOUCHARD: “Kaleidoscopic Pathos,” an exhibition of paintings that address landscape and human experience. Through September 30. Info, 223-5811. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

SHOW 12: An exhibition featuring the latest works of the collective gallery’s 15 Vermont memberartists. Through September 30. Info, 272-0908. Th Front in Montpelier.

‘SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPES’: Oil paintings by Elizabeth Nelson, based on northern New England landscapes and inspired by the ancient Chinese divination text I Ching. Through October 28. Info, 828-5422. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

TOM WIES: “Elusive Element,” an exhibition of photographs taken over the last four years in Scandinavia, Serbia, Ireland and sites across the United States, featuring landscapes, portraits and abstractions of nature. Through September 30. Info, 223-5811.

Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

f WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION IN VERMONT: An exhibition of more than 100 New Deal-era artworks bequeathed to the State of Vermont that highlight a moment in American history when the nation sparked relief projects to help create a new economy and recover from the Great Depression. Reception: Friday, September 23, 5-7 p.m. Through N vember 11. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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CAROLINE BURTON: “A Rag, a Bone, a Hank of Hair,” an exhibition of works by the New Jersey artist.

Through September 30. Info, 635-1224. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

‘F/7 PHOTOGRAPHY: SIMPLICITY’: Seven Vermont photographers who meet regularly to share and discuss their work present new images based on the theme of simplicity: Elliot Burg, Annie Tiberio Cameron, Lisa Dimondstein, Julie Parker, Sandra Shenk, John Snell and Rob Spring. Through November 1. DONALD VAN DYKE: “Great Outdoors,” an exhibition of landscapes by the Nantucket painter. Through N vember 1. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

JOSEPH LUPIANI AND ADELAIDE TYROL: “Instinct and Attitude,” an exhibition of paintings and sculpture that explore the parallels between animal and human behavior and personalities. Through October 16. KIM RADOCHIA: “Murmurations,” sculptural paper assemblage influenced y the artist’s study of li, the ancient Chinese practice of gathering and organizing patterns found in nature.

Through October 16. Info, 253-8943. est Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

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SAM THURSTON: An exhibition of portraits, still lifes, ceramics, clay figures, wood sculpture and drawings. Through September 30. Info, 635-2727.

Red Mill Gallery in Johnson.

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ANNELEIN BEUKENKAMP: A solo exhibition of watercolor paintings by the Burlington artist, produced by Valley Arts. Through October 10. Info, 496-6682. The Bridges ermont Resort & Tennis Club in Warren.

ART IN THE ROUND BARN: The 26th an nual art exhibition featuring all mediums except photography. Through October 12. Info, 496-7722.

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Deadline: October 31. Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, maryjomccarthy@gmail.com.

THE LIGHT GARDEN: Pentangle Arts Organization seeks individual artists or small groups to participate in this September 23 to 25 community event by creating sculptures incorporating light.

For details and to submit, visit pentanglearts.org/artists-call.

Deadline: September 23.

Woodstock Village Green. Info, 457-3981.

‘NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY: DUSK TO DAWN’: Seeking images taken at nighttime for an exhibition to be juried by Lance Keimig. For details and to submit, visit photoplacegal lery.com. Deadline: October 10. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. Up to 5 photographs for $30; $7 for each additional. Info, 388-4500.

‘PEACE ON EARTH’: Seeking 2D and 3D works that celebrate and strengthen the ideals of collaboration and acceptance, and less segregation and prejudice. Exhibition will be

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November 4 though January 7. All work must be for sale.

For details and to submit, visit cmacvt.org. Deadline: October 7. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

SUKKOT ON THE FARM WEAVING CHALLENGE: Seeking eight artists to weave the walls for a festival sukkah, considering the question: What brings meaning to our lives despite the impermanence and changing nature of reality? Wall panels can be created on-site at the festival or installed from previously created works. Panels should measure fi e to eight feet across and more than three feet tall. All participating artists will be featured online and receive free entrance to the two-day festival. Installation must be completed the week of October 9. For details and to submit, contact Melanie Kessler by phone at 385-1039 or email at bikingmelanie@gmail.com.

Deadline: September 30. New Leaf Organics, Bristol. Info, 385-1039.

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‘LAND AND LIGHT AND WATER AND AIR’: Annual juried landscape exhibition featuring more than 100 landscape paintings by New England artists.

Through N vember 6. HARRY ORLYK: Solo exhibition of landscape oil paintings. Through November 6. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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FINE ARTS AND CRAFT SHOW & SALE: 12th annual Columbus weekend (October 8-9) event hosted by the Wooden Horse Arts Guild seeks local artisans and craftsmen to vend works.

For details and to apply, visit woodenhorsearts.com.

Deadline: October 1. Degre Auction House, Westfield. Info, 988-4300.

GARY ECKHART: “On a Vermont Shelf,” a collection of Vermont-inspired watercolor still-life paintings. Through October 31. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

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‘EYES THAT CAN SEE’: Seeking photographs made in Vermont for an upcoming exhibition curated by Burlington photographer Monika Rivard.

Artists may submit up to fi e photographs to eyesthatcan see.vermont@gmail.com.

Deadline: October 1. New City Galerie, Burlington.

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‘EXPOSED’: The 25th annual outdoor sculpture exhibit, featuring Korean artist JaeHyo Lee, among other works by local and national artists. Through October 15. MOLLY DAVIES: “Beyond the Far Blue Mountains,” a remastered digital projection of the original 16mm “three-screen fairy tale.” Through November 13. PAT STEIR: An exhibition of prints and drawings by the world-renowned New York painter, accompanied by video of the artist by Molly Davies. Through November 13. SALLY GIL: “Intergalactic Current,” a solo exhibition of collaged paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist, curated by 571 Projects. Through November 13. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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JOHN MATUSZ AND ELLEN URMAN: “Putting Our Heads Together,” an exhibition of new works by the Vermont artists. Through October 10. Info, 496-5843. Transformation Sculpture in Waitsfield

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JUDY DODDS: A retrospective exhibition featuring works in a variety of mediums, including hand-dyed and woven fabric, appliqué and quilted wall hangings, and hooked rugs by the octogenarian artist.

Through December 30. Info, 496-6682. ermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in Waitsfield MEG REINHOLD: Works by the painter and Yestermorrow Design/Build School chef. Through September 30. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield ‘WHAT HAVE WE DONE?’: Exhibition featuring the work of Crystal Liu, Lauren Matsumoto, Ryan McLennan, Charlotte Potter and Tara Tucker, who each address the precarious relationship between humans and nature. Through October 29. Info, 617-842-3332. Walker Contemporary in Waitsfield.

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f ‘WOOD + METAL REIMAGINED’: Exhibition of contemporary wood and metalwork by a selection of central Vermont artists and artisans, including Erich Auer, Ben Cheney, Chris Eaton, Philip Herbison, 9/20/16 11:49 AMBruce MacDonald and Eyrich Stauffer. Reception: Friday, September 23, 6-8 p.m. Through October 29. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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‘ALNOBAK: WEARING OUR HERITAGE’: An exhibition featuring a visual timeline from Vermont Abenaki families and garments and regalia recently made to reflect and celebrate their traditions. Through October 10. Info, 475-2022. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes.

‘BLOOM AND DOOM: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS AND REFORM IN VIENNA 1900’: Exhibition of works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and other members of the Viennese Secession, which illuminate how these individuals rejected the traditional academic system and turned to new means of expression.

Through December 11. Info, 443-3168. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

BONNIE BAIRD: “As the Crow Flies,” an exhibition of landscape oil paintings rendered with a limited palette and simple geometry. Through September

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“inclusive sacred paintings” that celebrate “the bond between women, the Madonna and Child and the iconic individual.”

Through November 6. Pictured: “Mary & Jesus with the papel picado.”

25. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theate , in Middlebury.

f CHRIS TRIEBERT: “Geomorph: Things Change and They Change Again,” an exhibition of photographs featuring remnants of Tropical Storm Irene’s aftermath, accompanied by audio and film documentation. Reception and a tist talk: Thursda , October 6, 5:30-7 p.m. Through November 5. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

THE FIGURE: MIDDLEBURY LIFE DRAWING EXHIBITION: Observational works by members of the Middlebury Life Drawing Group, which has been meeting for 15 years. Featured artists are Joe Bolger, Duker Bower, Sara Farr, Fred Lower, Mary Lower, Jill Madden, Gabrielle McDermit and Santo Santoriello. Through October 21. Info, 388-1827.

WalkOver Gallery and Concert Room in Bristol.

JIM WESTPHALEN: “vanish.,” an exhibition of photographs observing the decay of the built landscape in rural America. Through September 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

KATHRYN MILILLO: “Kindsight,” a solo exhibition of landscapes by the Proctor painter. Through September 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘MADONNAS MAKE YOU BRAVE’: A grand-opening exhibition of works by Anne Cady and Pamela Smith. Through N vember 1. Info, 877-2173.

Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘PEDALING THROUGH HISTORY: 150 YEARS OF THE BICYCLE’: In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the first pedal bic cle patent, this exhibition showcases the extensive bicycle collection of Glenn Eames, which traces the evolution of the bicycle

through today. Through October 16. Info, 388-2117.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

‘POST POP: PRINTS OF KEITH HARING’: An exhibition of select, limited-edition prints on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation. Through December 11.

Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art. ‘QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 18201835’: Furniture made by Monkton Quaker Stephen Foster Stevens, exhibited alongside account books, diaries, documents, photographs and other personal ephemera. Through October 30. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

STEVEN JUPITER: “Communion,” an exhibition of watercolor-based prints loosely inspired by myths, folklore and fairy tales. Through October 31. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury.

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CAROLYN SHATTUCK: “Unstill Lifes,” an exhibition of oil-on-canvas paintings and mixed-media works on clayboard. Through September 30. Info, 773-1801. Rutland City Hall.

‘EFFERVESCENCE’: The 2016 juried showcase features 26 artists working in diverse media, from wood and ceramics to anime-style illustration, landscape photography and abstract collage.

Through September 24. Info, 775-0356. Cha fee Art Center in Rutland.

f MAREVA MILLARC: “Thought Forms,” an exhibition of paintings by the Middletown Springs artist. Reception: Saturday, October 1, 2-4 p.m.

Through October 2. Info, 287-8197. Stone alley Arts in Poultney.

SCULPTFEST2016: Sculptures addressing the theme “Forecast Now,” selected by guest curator

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Taylor Apostol, featuring Johanna Becerra, Dalila Bennett, Tamara Berdichevsky, Ray Ciemny, Charlie Hickey, Jessica Leete, Desmond Lewis, Beth Miller, Chris Miller, Alexander Jose Ramirez, Rick Rothrock and Gordon Wright. Through October 23. Info, 438-2097. The Ca ving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

STEPHANIE STOUFFER: “The Creati e World of Stephanie Stouffer,” an exhibition featuring works by the successful commercial artist, including paintings and a selection of licensed objects.

Through October 29. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

‘THE SYRIAN EXPERIENCE AS ART’: A group exhibition of works by 12 Syrian artists, meant as a welcoming gesture to incoming Syrian refugees, as well as a means of educating Rutland and surrounding community members about Syria’s culture and artistic responses to the ongoing war.

Through October 14. Info, castletonco legegalleries@gmail.com. Info, 468-5611. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

champlain islands/northwest

‘SWEET HARMONY BY THE LAKE’: Intergenerational art show opening featuring inspirational flags created by island schoolchildren, seniors, community members and gallery artists. Through October 16.

Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.

upper valley

‘BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS’: An exhibit that traces the evolution of birds from dinosaurs, featuring skeletons, life-size replicas and hands-on activities.

Through October 31. Info, 359-5000. ermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee.

CAROL LIPPMAN: “A Path to the Unconscious,” new prints made using solarplate etching technology combined with collagraph and other printmaking media. Through September 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

POLLY FORCIER: “Early American Decoration,” a retrospective exhibition of stenciled and painted objects by the local stenciling expert, including replicas of different types of hand-decorated early American objects. Through October 31. Info, 649 0124. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center.

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ANN YOUNG: “The F rain,” paintings by the Barton artist. Through September 30. Info, 323-7759. Th 99 Gallery and Center in Newport.

CAROLYN MECKLOSKY: “Dream Seeds and Birds Eggs,” new paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through N vember 1. Info, 472-9933. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

ERIC AHO: “Toward a Bright Opening,” solo exhibition of landscapes by the Saxtons River painter, whose recent works incorporate a prominent void, hole or portal. Through October 10. Info, 748-2600.

Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

VICTORIA MATHIESEN: Paintings of near and far-away landscapes. Through N vember 7. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

‘X-RAY VISION: FISH INSIDE OUT’: A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution featuring 40 large-scale digital prints of X-rays of several species of fish. Through June 1. Info 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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‘UNION STATION: GATEWAY TO THE WORLD’: An exhibit of images and stories of Brattleboro’s Union Station, home of BMAC, to mark the 100th anniversary of its opening. ‘UP IN ARMS: TAKING STOCK OF GUNS’: A group exhibition considers the enormous physical, psychological and symbolic power of guns in the U.S. Artists include Liu Bolin, Linda Bond, Kyle Cassidy, Madeline Fan, Susan Graham, Jane Hammond, Don Nice, Sabine Pearlman and Jerilea Zempel. BABETTE BLOCH: “Flora and Fauna,” large-scale steel sculptures of birds and magnolias. JAMIE YOUNG: “Chaos and Light,” a solo exhibition of paintings depicting several species of vines covering trees all over New England. JOHN WILLIS: “House/Home: A Work in Progress,” photographs of houses and homes in Native American communities. Through October 23. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

KAREN GAUDETTE: An exhibition of surreal storybook scratchboard drawings which explore archetypal and mystical imagery. Through October 31. Info, 257-4777. Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro.

‘LANDSCAPES AFTER RUSKIN: REDEFINING THE SUBLIME’: An exhibition curated by American artist Joel Sternfeld, who uses Victorian scholar John Ruskin’s work as a departure point for contextualizing contemporary renderings of landscapes and nature. Works are by Joseph Beuys, Katherine Bradford, Christo, Gustave Courbet, Naoya Hatakeyama, Anselm Kiefer, Raymond Pettibon, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ru f, Ai Wei Wei, David Wojnarowicz and more. This show also se ves as the world debut of Sternfeld’s 2016 film London Bridge. Through N vember 27. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

SHANE HARRIS: “Outdoor Perspectives,” an exhibition of landscape watercolors by the artist and Bellows Falls Police Department office . Through October 10. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.

manchester/bennington

DAVID BREWSTER: “Quixotic Encounters,” a 20-year retrospective of alla prima (wet-on-wet) oil paintings. Through October 3. KATHRYN WIEGERS: “Creation,” an exhibition of paintings based on the seven days of creation from the book of Genesis.

Through October 3. Info, 362-1405. Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

‘MILTON AVERY’S VERMONT’: Works the American modernist created based on his summers spent in southern Vermont during the mid-1930s through the mid-1940s. Through N vember 6. f DUANE

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ANNIE TIBERIO CAMERON: Photographs by the Vermont artist. Through October 13. Info, 223-2204.

Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center.

MARIANNE MCCANN: “Facial Recognition,” a selection of acrylic portrait paintings by the Chelsea artist. Through N vember 4. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library.

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PETER FRIED AND CELIA REISMAN: “Painting in the Neighborhood,” an exhibition of artworks depicting built landscapes. Through October 31. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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‘SLEIGHT OF HAND: CLAY AND PAINT’: Works by Randolph painter Laurie Sverdlove and ceramicists Sarah Heimann, Gail Kendall and Holly Walker.

Through N vember 6. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

SUE LENFEST: A solo exhibition of 11 pastel, oil, pencil and charcoal drawings and paintings by the South Woodstock artist. Through October 22.

Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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‘SHE PHOTOGRAPHS’: An exhibition featuring 70 works by 30 contemporary women photographers, including Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Kiki Smith and Marnie Weber. Through Februa y 19. ‘THE BLACK SUN OF MELANCHOLY: MONSTERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, FROM GOYA AND BLAKE TO REDON AND MUNCH’: Drawings and lithographs by 16 romantic artists who delved the depths of their imaginations to evoke strong feelings in the beholder. Through December 11. ‘TOULOUSELAUTREC ILLUSTRATES THE BELLE ÉPOQUE’: More than 90 prints and posters from the famed artist’s lithographic career. Through October 30. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

Francesca Blanchard with Chris Velan

‘DÜRER & REMBRANDT: MASTER PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. DORRANCE KELLY’: An exhibition of prints including 29 engravings and woodcuts by German printmaker Albrecht Dürer and 35 etchings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as 18 contemporary works by Hendrick Goudt, Lucas van Leyden, Aegidius Sadeler and Lucas Cranach. ‘THE HYDES & REMBRANDT’: An exhibition tracing the efforts of Louis and Charlotte Hyde’s quest to secure a painting by the Dutch master. Through October 2. Info, 518-792-1761. Th Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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EDMUND ALLEYN: “In my studio, I am many,” a retrospective showcasing nearly 50 works, including paintings, drawings, films and technological pieces, by the late Québécois artist. Through September 25. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art.

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‘PLEIN AIR NORTHEAST KINGDOM’: Landscapes depicting northern Vermont in oils, watercolor and pastels. Through October 15. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: The 19th annual exhibition of dozens of public sculptures throughout town, curated by artist Joe Chirchirillo. Through October 23.

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OLGA LAWSON & SAM THURSTON: “Along the River,” an exhibition of paintings by Thurston and watercolor and ink drawings by Lawson. Through September 30. Info, 334-2626. Newport Natural Market & Café.

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MOHAMAD HAFEZ: Surrealistic Middle Eastern streetscapes made of found objects, paint and scrap metal by the Syrian-born artist and architect.

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MICHALS: “Photographs From the Floating World,” an exhibition of vibrant color images. Reception: Saturday, September 24, 6 p.m. Artist talk: 7 p.m.

Through October 30. JANE STICKLE QUILT: Annual display of the 1863 quilt that inspires quilters all over the world, containing 5,602 pieces surrounded by a unique scalloped border. Through October 10. MARK BARRY: “Something About Summer,” an exhibition of paintings based on images of the everyday life the artist creates with family and friends. Through October 2. Info, 447-1571.

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T

he Unbearable Lightness of Being Somebody Different Every Few Years for the Most Pretentious, Hyper-Corny Reasons Conceivable would have served as a far more apt title for this third feature from Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace). With the accent on “unbearable.” Complete Unknown accomplishes the unthinkable: Against all odds, Marston has somehow managed to make the fabulous Rachel Weisz — and even, for God’s sake, Michael Shannon — tiresome.

Cowritten by Marston and Julian Sheppard, this is a story that pretends to have a lot more on its mind than it really does. Marston poses as a cinematic philosopher unpacking Big Questions about the nature of Identity and how to discern the Real from the Unreal.

These are, of course, riddles that have been explored in countless pictures throughout the history of the art form. The more pressing question is how the director got the green light for a project that offers virtually zero answers.

The film’s title is obviously an allusion to Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” to which its single and tenuous thematic connection is provided by Jenny, the character played by Weisz.

She dated Shannon’s character, Tom, 15 years earlier, only to disappear without warning and

embark on an enigmatic world tour. A classical piano prodigy in her youth, Jenny rebelled against that role, for reasons never explained, by relocating and reinventing herself every few years in another corner of the planet.

In an opening montage, we see Jenny as a hipster in Portland, a trauma nurse in an emergency room, an American teacher romantically involved in Australia, a woman conducting surveillance on an Ohio home, a botanist fresh from the Amazon rainforest and a magician’s assistant in China. Marston apparently has never met a cornball metaphor he didn’t like, so it goes without saying that, in that last clip, Weisz is shown performing a trick that concludes with her disappearing through a trap door. Get it?

Shortly afterward, we catch up with Jenny living in New York and working at a lab, where she dissects leeches and records the songs of rare frogs. Not surprisingly, we never do get her job title. Her real reason for returning, though, is to reconnect with Tom. Texting him would be too easy. Instead, she befriends his boss (Michael Chernus) and gets herself invited to his birthday party.

Tom recognizes her immediately but says nothing, what with his wife (Azita Ghanizada) seated at the same table. “Alice,” as Jenny is currently calling herself, says a great deal,

IDENTITY CRISIS Weisz does her best to make something mysterious and thought-provoking out of this messy saga of a globe-trotting shapeshifter.

however. The final two thirds of the movie, in fact, pretty much consist of her talking about herself, first at the party and later when she and Tom sneak out on the town together.

First Jenny fabricates so many whoppers that the celebrants turn on her. Later, when she has Tom improbably to herself, she blathers on and on about the liberation she experiences through lying compulsively and switching identities as often as a snake sheds skins. The filmmakers attempt to present her personal philosophy as bold and compelling, but it’s virtually impossible to take seriously, given dialogue like the following: Tom: “How do you even keep track of them all [her incarnations]?”

Jenny: “That’s not the hard part. When people think they know you, they lay claim to you. You’re trapped. That’s the hard part.”

For a movie about a femme fatale who roams the globe trying on new lives, Complete Unknown never really goes anywhere.

Tom asks the same questions of Jenny over and over. And Jenny gives the same tedious answers over and over. Even with these firstrate leads, you’re likely to be glad when it’s over.

Complete Unknown plays Friday, September 23, through Thursday, September 29, at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury.

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welve years after Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was anyone holding their breath for another installment in the singleton’s saga? But in the interim, something a little scary has happened: The ailing romantic-comedy genre has been squeezed out of our theaters to make room for more superheroes and stoner comedies.

That, if nothing else, is a reason to welcome back Renée Zellweger’s unfailingly droll and committed performance. Bridget Jones has one great advantage over the standard late-period rom-com heroine: She isn’t afraid to embarrass herself.

Even now that she has a tony job as producer of a TV chat show, Bridget conceals the heart of a hedonistic slob beneath her designer ensembles. It’s easy to see why the love of her life, the high-minded, humorless barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), can’t quite bring himself to quit or commit to her.

Bumbling and blustering, Zellweger gives the character an enthusiasm — and, yes, a desperation — that’s oddly endearing.

As for the film itself, under the direction of Sharon Maguire, who kicked off the trilogy with Bridget Jones’s Diary, it’s slackly paced and overlong. Still, there are bright spots of hilarity. The conceit is simple and foolproof: Bridget takes the same slapdash yet goodhearted approach to pregnancy and motherhood that she takes to everything else.

Separated from Darcy when the film opens, our heroine seizes the opportunity for

WHO’S YOUR DADDY? Zellweger plays a ballooning Bridget with two excellent candidates to choose from in this late addition to the rom-com series.

an ardent reunion with him at a friend’s christening. When Bridget finds herself in an interesting condition, there’s a hitch: Her supercilious OB-GYN (Emma Thompson, a pleasure) can’t pin down the date of conception. The baby’s father could be Darcy, or it could be millionaire online-dating entrepreneur Jack (Patrick Dempsey), with whom Bridget had a fling at a music festival. And, it turns out, both men are eager to start playing the daddy role.

What’s a fortysomething girl to do?

To the film’s credit, Bridget quickly comes clean with both her suitors, rather than drawing out a tedious series of deceptions and misunderstandings. Instead of trying to convince each man he’s the only one she slept with, she weighs how much of a role to give each in her child’s life.

The problem is, her conflict never feels remotely authentic, because Jack is a fantasy of laid-back, affluent awesomeness, not a character. It’s never clear why he’s so keen

on Bridget; the film’s writers (Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Thompson) seem to have conceived him as McDreamy in England and left it at that. A scene where he tells a crucial lie — showing potential for a dark side — has no payoff.

In indulging the soft-focus fantasy of a choice between two handsome, wealthy, adoring men, Bridget Jones’s Baby reminds us why Hollywood rom-coms are dying: They lost their connection to reality. Bridget’s romance with Darcy was always a bit of wish fulfillment, wryly presented as such via the casting of Firth, Bridget’s celebrity crush in Fielding’s best seller. Here, though, rather than gently satirizing their heroine’s romantic imaginings, the filmmakers fall back on tired filler gags about millennial hipsters and on-air mishaps.

A franker, tougher approach to Bridget’s situation — which includes a looming threat of unemployment — might have yielded a darker, funnier film. There’s a reason that today’s best rom-coms come from TV and indie production companies: They’re not afraid to follow the lead of female comedians who have their doubts about the “happily ever after” template. It’s hard not to root for Bridget Jones to get her very own picture-perfect happy ending. But let’s hope that, having granted it to her (and I’m not spoiling much here, believe me), Hollywood will let her rest.

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NEW IN THEATERS THE HOLLARS: John Krasinski directed and stars in this comedy-drama about an urbanite who returns to the heartland home of his eccentric family as his mom prepares to undergo brain surgery.

With Margo Martindale, Sharlto Copley and Richard Jenkins. (88 min, PG-13. Capitol, Palace) THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke play three of the gunslingers who team up to save an imperilled village in this remake of the classic western, itself an adaptation of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.

Antoine Fuqua (The Equalize ) directed. (132 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: Moviegoers watch 10 short films from around the world, then vote for their favorites, at this annual celebration of cinema. (Approximately 120 min, NR. Marquis, Roxy) STORKS: In a world where storks deliver packages for an internet conglomerate, a bird who finds himself accidentally saddled with a baby attempts to revive the outdated practice of delivering it to a happy couple. With the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown and Kelsey Grammer. Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors) and Doug Sweetland directed the family animation. (89 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset, Welden)

NOW PLAYING BAD MOMSHHH Three stressed-out mothers de cide to ditch the quest for perfection and embrace their inner bad girls in this comedy directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate star. (101 min, R) THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK — THE TOURING YEARSHHH1/2 Director Ron Howard assembled this found-footage compilation that chronicles the band’s 250 shows between 1963 and 1966. (99 min, NR) BLAIR WITCHHH1/2 The 1999 horror flick tha started the found-footage craze fina ly gets a found-footage sequel, in which a film students brother heads back into the woods to investigate her mysterious disappearance. Adam Wingard (The Guest) directed. (89 min, R)

CAPTAIN FANTASTICHHH1/2 The patriarch ( iggo Mortensen) of an unconventional, off-the-grid family is forced by circumstances to introduce his brood to civilization. Matt Ross wrote and directed.

(118 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 8/3)

DON’T BREATHEHHHH1/2 A team of young thieves break into the house of a blind veteran (Stephen Lang) who turns out to be more than capable of defending himself in this horror thriller directed by Fede Alvarez. (88 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/31)

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Derek Cianfrance directed. (132 min, PG-13) MECHANIC: RESURRECTIONHH The remake of the 1972 action flick has a sequel, in which Jason Statham reprises his role as an assassin who makes his hits look like accidents. (99 min, R) MR. CHURCHHH Eddie Murphy does a non-comedic turn in this drama in which he plays a cook who develops a powerful bond with the daughter of his employer. With Britt Robertson and Madison Wolfe.

Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) directed. (104 min, PG-13) PETE’S DRAGONHHH1/2 Disney offers a remake of its 1977 family adventure flick about an orphan (Oakes Fegley) whose best friend is a dragon visible to him alone. David Lowery directed. (102 min, PG) THE SECRET LIFE OF PETSHHHHH What do pets get up to when their owners are away? Plenty of shenanigans, this animated family comedy suggests. Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate and Albert Brooks contributed their voice talents. (90 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 7/13) SNOWDENHHH Director Oliver Stone presents his dramatized take on the saga of the whistleblower (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who exposed the farreaching activities of the National Security Agency.

With Shailene Woodley and Melissa Leo. (134 min, R) SOUTHSIDE WITH YOUHHH1/2 This Sundance featured indie re-creates the summer afternoon when Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson had their first date on Chicagos South Side. Richard Tanne makes his directorial debut. (84 min, PG-13)

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DON’T THINK TWICEHHHH Comedian Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) wrote and directed this comedy about what happens when one member of an improv troupe suddenly gets a lot more famous than the others. (92 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 8/31)

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(96 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 9/14) WAR DOGSHHHH1/2 Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a pair of bros eager for government cash who take on a $300 million deal to arm America’s Afghan allies in this fact-based comedy-drama.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Here’s my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream last

night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks. They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and left you there in the pitch dark. But you were indomitable. By dawn, you had miraculously wriggled your way out of your confinement Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here’s my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P.S.: For best results, trust yourself even more than you usually do.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations. 3. Meditate about where you truly belong. 4. Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6.

Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7. Deepen your intimacy with the Earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What tools will work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver?

Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in mid-task — or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m confiden that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills.

My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery store Dumpsters. What accounts for my growing fina cial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can’t com-

pletely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness or alienate you from what you love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Work too

much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius.

Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch and French fries for dinner — every day, if possible. And please, please, please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. Just kidding! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too

hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy and release as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you loosen

yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud and in-your-face nor demure, quiet and passive — but rather just right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some of my readers love me but also hate me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then they get mad at me when I do just that.

In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain. It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability, and when it’s gone, they don’t know who they are any more. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why.

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I get a lot of penis questions. Believe me, the numbers are steep. So, to all you men out there, I want you to listen hard and listen well! I’m hoping we can settle this penis-size dilemma once and for all.

According to every resource I have ever encountered, the average penis size is within about half an inch of 5.24 inches.

Have you heard of micropenis? According to WebMD, that’s the medical term for the 0.6 percent of men with the smallest penises. (My family doc confirmed this.) An by small, we’re talking three-and-two-thirds inches when measured — flaccid — from the pubic bone to the tip o the penis. To measure accurately, bring the ruler to your pubic bone and stretch the penis as far as it will go. (FYI: If you had micopenis, the doctors would have discovered this at birth, as it is a genetic or hormonal condition.)

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When: Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913653 JUNIOR FIREFIGHTER ON THE PLAYGROUND Your fire truck was parked y Murray Street.

My toddler was excited to see your truck and waved. You gave him a sticker and made his day, as well as mine. Hope you can make my day again. When: Sunday, September 11, 2016.

Where: Sustainability Academy playground, Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913652 SUNDAY 09/11/16 WINOOSKI BEVVY 1 P.M. You: the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

You had a bottle of Champagne and were reaching into the cooler. Me: man with dark blond hair and blue eyes, holding a bottle and two six-packs. When: Sunday, September 11, 2016. Where: Beverage Warehouse, Winooski. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913651 GYM ON A SATURDAY We talked; your name is Aaron. You only go to this gym on weekends. I was really shy because I fin you very attractive. Got home, tried to find you on Facebook, can’t. I hope you see this and reach out!

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When: Friday, September 9, 2016. Where: Barrio Bakery. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913649

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When: Monday, August 8, 2016. Where: gym. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913648 JESSICA AND CHANCE! You’re both lovely, and I’m so happy you have stopped by to see me. Every week I hope to see you again. Please come again (3-7 p.m. Thursdays and say hi to me. And let’s make a date to go for a walk and have some dinner together! I would love to spend some time with you! —Stephen.

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I never got your name, but I see you around Burlington all the time. If you see and this and remember me, perhaps the next time you are in town can be with me for dinner or a drink? When: Thursda , September 1, 2016. Where: Ethan Allen Homestead. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913646

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When: Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Where: Indian Brook Reservoir. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913641 SOUTH UNION ST. 8/31 You: gorgeous. Green top, rainy blond hair. Me: shaved head, green rain jacket, denim cutoffs, iPod. We smiled at each other, and I got pumped!

When: Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Where: South Union Street. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913640 ONE KNOTTY BOY Three and a half years of waiting for you to see that I am worth it. I have tried to show you over and over what a good person I am, on and off the field. I want you for the rest of my life, however long that may be. Let me be your knotty girl? When: Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913639

LOOKING FOR A HAMSTER HUT Small enclosed space with room for two; babbling brook, skinny-dipping, roaring fire wonderful food. Was an incredible “alone” time. Looking forward to next time. Than you. When: Friday, August 5, 2016. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913638 CAT FOOD SHOPPING AT MEHURON’S You were wearing some kind of a karate robe. You bumped into me, and I dropped my pork rinds. We both had cans of Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers whitefish in our carts. I started to compliment your neck tattoo, but I was too nervous. Cat playdate soon? When: Saturday, August 27, 2016. Where: Mehuron’s, Waitsfield. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913637

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When: Monday, August 22, 2016. Where: everywhere. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913628 AIOLI AT HOTEL VERMONT Shared a plate of fries and a little bit more.

I didn’t like how we left things. I’m willing to look past your “status.” Would like to see you again. I think we can do better next time.

When: Friday, August 19, 2016. Where: Hotel Vermont. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913627 MOBB’S FARM TRAILS SATURDAY MORNING You were walking the most adorable puppy through the meadow. I was on a mountain bike.

I got to the top of the hill and just thought to myself how incredibly cute you were, as well! If you’re out there and you read this and you’re unattached and are interested: Love to hit the trails with you two sometime. When: Saturday, August 20, 2016. Where: Mobb’s Farm Trails. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913626

BUNNY BOY AT U-MALL DD Hey, cutie in the bunny hoodie in line, with the glasses and rainbow necklace. Wanted to stop and say something, but was working and didn’t want to get in trouble. Wanna meet up sometime?

When: Saturday, August 27, 2016. Where: U-Mall Dunkin’ Donuts. You: Man. Me: Man. #913634

HOWDY, STRANGER We meet up for the Garden of Eden festival. We shared a love for Strangefolk! Even on crutches, you still managed to rock out! While I don’t think I’ll ever see you again, I can’t stop thinking about you! I believe I was meant to meet you! Hope you felt the same connection?! When: Saturday, August 13, 2016. Where: Jay Peak Strangefolk show. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913624

BLUE-EYED EXPAT Sushi, laughter, silliness and great, er, conversation. Cheese plates, random destruction of police tape. blue eyes I fall into. A man who is chivalrous and quirky. Do not bring fury Halloween masks here again. Jet has yet to forgive me.

Oh, I think a KitchenAid drone would be nifty.

When: Thursda , August 18, 2016. Where: Tiny Thai. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913633 WOMAN OF MY DREAMS I see you every day. Your beauty is breathtaking, and you are constantly in my thoughts. Hoping that you may think the same. Hoping for a little quality time with you. When: Wednesday, August 24, 2016.

Where: 05663. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913632

WAITING FOR GREYLOCK BUS We spoke briefly, waiting for the bus to arrive at Edmunds School on a rainy day.

I think your dog liked me. We live in the same town; any interest in having dinner?

When: Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #91361 LANTMAN’S Blonde in checkout. (You go first.) When: Monday, August 15, 2016. Where: Lantman’s.

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I think we should go on a date at the dog park or a walk on the beach. Maybe hold hands? Who knows! When: Monday, August 22, 2016. Where: Rite Aid. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913630

CHECKING YOU OUT AT COLCHESTER SHAW’S I come to this location often. I always make sure I have less than 10 items just in case you’re working the express line, so I can come to your checkout. You always have a friendly smile, and maybe one day I’ll have the courage to give you my number. Thank you, Spencer, for being the reason I come here! When: Saturday, August 27, 2016. Where: Shaw’s, Colchester. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913636

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