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Thank you for taking the time to address the important topic of sexual violence on college campuses in your recent article, “Manning Up” [February 25]. College rape culture is an issue that has been silenced for too long. However, prevention programs like the recent One In Four presentation at Saint Michael’s are only half the battle. As Ken Picard notes in the article, “colleges and universities have been under intense pressure from the feds to do a better job of investigating and preventing campus sexual assaults.” Schools have been quick to tackle prevention, generating feel-good press that gives top officials ample opportunity to emphasize that none of their athletes and/or students have been accused of sexual violence. What takes much more courage is the investigation. After two years of working with the Saint Michael’s College Feminist Club on issues of sexual violence, it has become apparent that what we need is for an official to stand up and say the truth: Many students, athletes and nonathletes alike, have been accused of sexual misconduct. It’s time for colleges to put more effort into investigating cases and less into covering them up. Expulsions and convictions don’t make for the kind of headlines that attract prospective students, but ending violence and supporting survivors matter more
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In her piece “Shaming: Is it Criminal?” [Poli Psy, February 25], Judith Levine fails to recognize the importance of holding perpetrators accountable for the nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit images. Nonconsensual distribution of images is an increasingly common tactic used by domestic abusers to maintain power and control over their victims. Abusers threaten to disclose intimate images of their partners when victims attempt to leave the relationship. They use this threat to keep their partners under their control, only to make good on it once their partners find the courage to leave. Nonconsensual distribution has destroyed victims’ ability to maintain or seek employment, thwarting attempts to gain independence and safety. Ms. Levine asks: “What makes revenge porn different from identity theft?” The answer is clear — unlike identity theft, revenge porn happens within the context of relationships in which women are treated as objects. It
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[Re “Prison Brake: Bill Proposes to Reduce Vermont Inmate Population,” February 25:] Doing what Rep. Mollie Burke (P/D-Brattleboro) proposes in H-221 would be terrible for Vermont in all areas of the state. Not too many years ago, two inmates walked away from a supervised work program and killed a teacher in her home here in Vermont. That is just one example. The Vermont Department of Corrections does a good job of making sure proposed housing for inmates is safe for the people in the community and the inmates themselves. By this I mean that the proposed housing has to be free of drugs and alcohol, have no firearms on the premises, and be accessible to corrections officers at any time of the day or night before the inmate can be put on the furlough program. I don’t think this is unreasonable. In states like Texas and Tennessee, inmates are made to wear marked, highly visible uniforms and be chained together while working on the state highways to lighten the workload on the state highway crews. This helps to keep the budget down and deters criminals from reoffending. I think Vermont needs a little Texas logic in the Statehouse!
time for Burlington to have its own way to review city officials for questionable conflicts of interest. I would suggest starting with Yves Bradley, chair of the Burlington Planning Commission and a commercial broker at Pomerleau Real Estate. Mr. Bradley’s overlapping interests include being chair of the board of Burlington College and the realtor who handled the sale of the Catholic Diocese property to BC for Tony Pomerleau. Bradley may be a very nice man, but should someone with such interlocking interests be presiding over the commission that makes zoning-change recommendations? Let the new panel decide. Next let’s direct the ethics investigators to city councilors Karen Paul and Jane Knodell. Their positions on the BC board would seem to conflict with upcoming decisions in response to a growing citizen uprising about the cash-strapped college’s decision to sell their property to developer Eric Farrell. Mayor Weinberger is committed to conserving part of this beautiful waterfront parcel from paving and building. Save Open SpaceBurlington’s call for keeping 100 percent of the land open has gathered steam. The decision on committing the Conservation Legacy Fund may ultimately rest with the city council. A clear conflict of interest? The chair of the Burlington Conservation Board works for Housing Vermont, which would ultimately want to participate in building on the BC land. Another conflict? Burlington is a small city, and consequently it is easy for lines to cross — all the more reason for a new independent panel to keep a close eye on our tangled webs.
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Senior Senator: ‘You Can’t Say No to Bill Doyle’
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Big Heavy World Director Challenges Burlington City Arts
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Build It Where? Burlington’s Mayor Wants More Downtown Student Housing
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Lay Down Your Arms: Suicide Prevention Could Unite Both Sides of Gun Battle
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Plainfield’s Town Braintap Serves Up Mind Candy for the Curious
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Women to Watch
Women: Meet seven Vermonters in diverse careers who are making history now BY MARK DAVIS, HANNAH PALMER EGAN, KATHRYN FLAGG, ALICIA FREESE & TERRI HALLENBECK
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A Vermonter’s Film Explores Mongolia’s Shamanic Rites
Weeders Survey
Crack open your cannabis closet!
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Education: Female students step up to the debate plate BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Theater: The Office Plays, Moxie Productions and Marabo Productions BY NICOLE HIGGINS DESMET
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Dressed for Success It’s time to break out bobs and flapper dresses! Folks revisit the Roaring Twenties at the Upper Valley Vixens’ Derbytante Ball. An ode to the days of speakeasies, Prohibition and The Great Gatsby, this themed soiree benefits the all-female roller derby team with an evening of dancing, raffles and music.
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Family Ties While “Orange Is the New Black” has popularized the lives of female prisoners, Jenifer McShane’s 2011 documentary Mothers of Bedford takes a different turn. Focusing her lens on Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York, the filmmaker follows five incarcerated mothers faced with the challenge of parenting from behind bars.
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ALL-STAR LINEUP The best of both worlds converge when bagpiper Timothy Cummings (pictured) leads a song-and-dance concert of traditional tunes from Ireland and Appalachia. The Middlebury College affiliate artist joins Pete Sutherland, Dominique Dodge, Caleb Elder and Mary Wesley for an evening of spirited instrumentals and folk dancing that encourages audience participation.
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All Wound Up The grounds and buildings at Shelburne Farms are among the most eye-catching in Vermont and represent the state’s agrarian past and present. Situated on this picturesque landscape are the Farm and Coach barns, architectural gems complete with operating tower clocks maintained by Jerry Francis and Mark Thermansen. The two are right on time in a discussion of the historic structures.
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Foodies spice things up at the Vermont Chili Festival, where a tribute to the one-pot meal transforms downtown Middlebury into a culinary competition for the ages. Amateur and professional chefs offer samples of time-tested recipes that put a personalized touch on the dish. Live music, street performers and kids activities round out the family-friendly fun.
There are many ways to tell a story. In Harlan Mack’s case, it’s through the paintings and sculpture in his exhibit “Forecast/Revival.” On view at the Vermont Studio Center’s Gallery II, bleak landscapes on canvas and life-size welded-steel works tell a haunting, futuristic tale. The resulting narrative interweaves the two mediums and illuminates dark places worth looking at.
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In the southernmost reaches of Vermont, one can find Great Valley, the Brattleboro-based duo of Peter Nichols and Jo Miller-Gamble. The pair welcomes Danny Bissette for its musical offshoot Grape Room. Birthed from the psych-pop stratosphere, the group takes the stage alongside the Lentils at Winooski’s Monkey House.
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certainly been extended due to a paucity of other storylines for the political press corps to pursue. For his part, Sanders brushed off a question about the matter during his appearance at the National Press Club, expressing frustration with the media for focusing on “political gossip” instead of substantive issues, such as chronic unemployment and childhood poverty. We plead guilty, your honor! Sanders said he’d just asked “the person at the front desk” of his Senate office: “How many calls are we getting on Hillary’s emails?” “You know what the answer was?” he said. “Zero. [It’s] not one of the major issues facing me.” Asked whether Clinton’s plans — or those of Sen. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-Mass.) — would have any bearing on his own, Sanders said they would not.
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“I don’t run against people. It’s not my desire to trash people. Hillary Clinton is a remarkable woman with an extraordinary history of public service,” he said, his voice steadily growing in volume. “It would not be my job to run against her. It would be my job, if she ran and if I ran, to debate the serious issues facing our country, as intelligent people should be doing in a democracy.” Fair enough. But Sanders knows as well as anyone how closely his political fate is tied to Clinton’s. The only reason Vermont’s septuagenarian Democratic Socialist is getting any ink, after all, is that Clinton has big-footed most serious challengers out of the race. Though he steered clear of server-gate Monday, Sanders unsubtly articulated a policy-based critique of Clinton that he’ll surely build upon in the coming months. He reminded his audience that he voted against the Iraq War, fought the deregulation of Wall Street and opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement. He didn’t mention that the Clintons supported all three, but he didn’t have to. “He’s going to talk about what he believes,” Devine says. “And if she agrees
with him, that’s fine. If she doesn’t, there will probably be a big debate about it.” Precisely what a Sanders campaign would look like remains a mystery. Clinton and her potential Republican foes have been immersed for months in the so-called “invisible primary,” in which candidates line up staff, early-state organizers and fundraising bundlers. But Sanders’ elongated exploration appears to be a shoestring affair. He has just one full-time campaign aide, NICK CARTER, and has relied upon two Senate staffers to guide his voyages to Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere on the presidential circuit: state director and perennial campaign manager PHIL FIERMONTE and spokesman MICHAEL BRIGGS. While most top-flight Republican operatives have already been snapped up by one of that party’s many potential candidates, Devine expresses confidence that Sanders could still enlist an A-team of campaign advisers should he run. “I’ve spoken to people — really good, really top-notch people — who absolutely would love to be part of this effort,” he says, adding that Sanders has not officially hired any of them. “I don’t have any doubt that if he wants to do this, it comes together very, very quickly. I have no doubt about that at all.” But wouldn’t most Democratic operatives steer clear of an uphill effort against a frontrunner who could occupy the White House — and dominate Democratic politics — for the next eight years? “The truth is that after two Obama campaigns, there are thousands of young political operatives in America and the Democratic Party who have extensive organizational skills,” Devine says. “And you know what? They’re not all going to work for Hillary Clinton. A lot of them don’t want to. They’re much more comfortable with a candidate who’s a very progressive figure who speaks to them like Obama did.” Devine says he doesn’t know whether a trusted confidante such as Fiermonte — a former Burlington city councilor and labor organizer — would manage Sanders’ campaign, or whether the senator would bring in a big gun from D.C. He does believe that his business partner, MARK LONGABAUGH, would likely play some sort of leading role. “I think presidential campaigns can be run by a combination of people who have a long history with a candidate and people who have a long history of doing this,” Devine says. “JIMMY CARTER ran a successful campaign in 1976 that was run by a bunch of people from Georgia.” What’s more clear, Devine says, is that Sanders will run “a very untraditional
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In January, the Montpelier City Council rejected a local newspaper’s petition to ask voters for a $27,254 appropriation. nat FrOthingham, the Bridge’s editor and publisher, argued at the time that municipal money was necessary to keep the free, twice-monthly publication afloat. But councilors unanimously agreed that the city should not dole out cash to forprofit entities — even if they’re not profitable at all. But the Bridge is back. It’s launched a conventional fundraising campaign with letters to friends and donors — and a far less conventional Kickstarter campaign. The old-school Frothingham says he’d never used the online fundraising platform before — “I’m not on the net looking for campaigns to support,” he says — but when a staffer suggested it, he said, “OK, let’s see what happens.”
With three days remaining until its Friday deadline, the Bridge has raised $5,895 from 102 donors. But according to Kickstarter’s rules, it will have to reach its $10,000 goal to collect any of those pledges. Helping them along the way: New England Culinary Institute students, who are baking cupcakes for those who pledge at least $25, and an anonymous donor who is matching contributions dollar-for-dollar. Frothingham says $10,000 should keep the paper running for four to five months, during which time it plans to become a nonprofit, install a board of directors and seek new sources of revenue. If it fails, will the paper go out of business? “Folding could happen, but folding looks a little more distant than last time we talked,” Frothingham says. “The response to our letter has been good, and the response to Kickstarter has been good. I’m feeling more optimistic today than I was when we chatted a month and a half ago.” Finally, Vermont lost one of its warmest journalistic voices this week with the death of Vermont Public Radio reporter SuSan keeSe. The South Newfane resident died Saturday morning at age 67 of complications related to the flu, her family announced Sunday. “She fought so hard and so courageously, and we did everything we could to save her,” her son, Christopher Pyatak, wrote on Facebook. “There are no words to express how much she has been loved and how much she will be missed.” Keese got her start reporting for the Rutland Herald in the early 1980s. She later edited Marlboro College’s alumni magazine and returned to the Herald in 1995 to pen a column called “No Stone Unturned,” which focused on family life and the natural world. Keese began covering southern Vermont for VPR in 2002, later serving as a founding producer of “Vermont Edition,” the daily public affairs show. In recent months, she focused much of her reporting on the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, a highly technical story she told from a heartfelt perspective. “She really worked hard to get the voices of the people affected,” says VPR news director JOhn DillOn. “She wanted to humanize every story, if possible.” The memorial service is Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m. in the Williamsville Grange. m
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remains the leading vote getter in his threeseat Washington County district. And for all of those years, he’s authored an annual town meeting day survey that plays a role in shaping the Vermont policy debate.
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where she got a job as a teacher and they went on to raise three children. They now have five grandchildren. A decade later, he won election to the Vermont Senate. During his first term, with governor Deane Davis proposing to raise the sales tax, Doyle surveyed his Washington County constituents to see how they felt about it. Sixty percent said they preferred a sales tax to raising the
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It’s hard to detect any kind of political agenda in the wording of Doyle’s poll questions. The same is true of the senator himself. He has won election to the Senate 24 times without becoming the patron saint of any particular cause. During a stint as Senate minority leader a few years ago, to his colleagues’ frustration, he never quite managed to play the role of opposition critic. This year, he is the lead sponsor of no Senate bills, though he has signed on as a cosponsor to those of others, including a bill to restrict the lending practices of rent-to-own stores and another to require lobbyists to disclose conflicts of interest. Doyle thrives not on proselytizing policy but on process and personal connections. Sandy Gaffney of Berlin, who ran for state Senate last year as a Progressive/ Democrat, said she found campaigning against Doyle frustrating. While she worked to stake out her stance on issues at campaign forums, voters seemed to give Doyle a bye, she said. “He just had to show up,� she said. “There weren’t any big revelations on where he stood.� Asked what legislation had been most meaningful to him over the years, Doyle pointed to a 1976 bill that established Vermont’s March presidential primary in lieu of a party caucus, in which fewer people tended to participate. This year, Doyle is backing another primary election bill, sponsored by Pollina, which would move Vermont’s primary to match New Hampshire’s earlier date. “How could I not want more Vermonters to engage in the process and be in a position like New Hampshire to affect who’s the next president?� Doyle said. Even as his county has turned more liberal, the Republican continues to outpoll all comers. He does it by going everywhere voters gather, all year long. Sunday evenings are reserved for family gatherings, which son Lee, who lives in Montpelier, and daughter Kelly, who lives in St. Johnsbury, often attend. On every other night of the week, Doyle is likely to be out meeting people. “He doesn’t miss a chicken pie supper or a spaghetti dinner,� said Sen. Rich Westman (R-Lamoille), another former student of Doyle’s. “Yes, he enjoys the food. Some of us poke fun at Bill over that, but it’s a place where he sees everybody.� “Somehow Bill Doyle has been able to cultivate a personal relationship with most of Washington County,� Pollina said. “He’s
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Every year, there is also grumbling about the unscientific nature of the survey. It does not query a representative sample of Vermonters, guard against fraud or word questions the way a professional pollster would. For example, Doyle asks in this year’s poll whether Lake Champlain “is as clear as you would like it to be.� Doyle makes no apologies for his approach. “I accept the fact that it’s not scientific, but I would say it’s not far off,� he said. “A lot of people tell me it’s a nice conversation.� Rich Clark, director of the Castleton Polling Institute, which uses professional polling techniques, is unwilling to dismiss Doyle’s survey, though he notes it is something other than a poll. Clark said he wanted to fill one out this year, but none was available at his Clarendon polling place. “It’s a measure of something. I don’t know what,� Clark said. “I’d hate to see it go away.�
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urlington’s so-called “student ghettos” have plagued the Queen City as long as it’s been a college town. Students drive up rents, making it harder for young families to find affordable housing, and their crowded “houses” can turn once-quiet neighborhoods into 24-hour party zones. Every city administration in recent memory has wrestled with this existential town/gown dilemma: The short-term population that contributes to Burlington’s intellectual and economic vitality also threatens its livability. Can newly reelected Mayor Miro Weinberger find a solution? He’s committed to trying. The mood was triumphant at Champlain College last month when Weinberger announced the resolution of the most recent legal dispute challenging the school’s proposed 290-bed student apartment building on St. Paul Street, dubbed Eagles Landing. It was a big step
toward what Weinberger described as his “pretty bold goal” of housing 1,500 more students in Burlington over the next five years. Building designated student complexes closer to downtown, he reasons, will reduce pressure on the housing market, draw students out of neighborhoods, and allow the city to rehabilitate ramshackle houses that fall prey to partying students and neglectful landlords. Roughly 3,000 undergraduates live off campus in Burlington, including 2,200 from the University of Vermont and several hundred from Champlain College. High demand for housing makes it a landlords’ market, and they maximize their profits by carving up houses into multiple units. Students say a city ordinance that prohibits more than four unrelated people from occupying a house is widely flouted. “Quality-of-life concerns,” as officials refer to them, often ensue. Last year, a group of neighbors, fed up with nightly
fireworks near Loomis Street, showed up en masse at a house to confront the culpable students. And on a recent weekend, a pair of city councilors encountered a random couch obstructing traffic in the middle of South Union Street. Residents complain of students’ noisy, nightly migrations to and from downtown. In 2007, Champlain College, which requires only first-year students to live on campus, committed to housing all of its nearly 2,000 students. To meet that goal, school officials said they’d build 600 beds on campus and 600 more at off-campus properties purchased for that purpose. Since then, they’ve added 450 beds on their hilltop grounds and zero elsewhere, but not for want of trying, according to senior vice president David Provost. Champlain bought the former Ethan Allen Club building on College Street in 2009 with the intention of housing 200 students there. It later purchased the old
Eagles Club on St. Paul Street for a 300-bed project called Eagles Landing. Champlain pursued the latter first, determining that it would be easier to get approval. Two and a half years and three legal disputes later, Provost sounded a bit shell-shocked from the experience. With so much of its energy focused on Eagles Landing, Provost said that the college has no immediate plans to pursue its Ethan Allen Club project or the other beds it’s committed to building. UVM has a policy of housing 60 percent of its undergrads on campus — freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus — in approximately 6,100 beds, according to school officials. Its only expansion plan is to demolish three dorms known as the “Shoeboxes” this spring and replace them with larger buildings that would add a net 308 beds total by 2017. During construction, 391 additional students will have to find housing, either at the Sheraton Hotel or the Quarry Hill
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he rancorous debate this winter over a bill to strengthen gun regulation in Vermont has overshadowed the quieter efforts of two lawmakers to target gun suicide. Reps. Teo Zagar (D-Barnard) and Anne Donahue (R-Northfield) argue that the gunregulation bill has drawn crowds and created controversy but done nothing to address suicide, which accounts for 90 percent of firearm deaths in Vermont. From 2008 to 2012, between 44 and 70 Vermonters killed themselves each year with guns, according to the Vermont Department of Health. Enter the “gun shop project.” Based on a model developed in New Hampshire, the program helps gun stores make suicide prevention part of their firearm-safety message. Zagar learned of the gun shop project last summer —“I thought, Wouldn’t it be a great thing to do in Vermont?” — and saw the voluntary project as a way “to bring both sides to the table and find common ground and actually achieve something.” Donahue was already acquainted with the project when Zagar asked her about partnering to promote it. “This is such a valuable tool,” she said. “This gets us somewhere we all want to go.” The project uses training videos, suicide-hotline cards and posters to achieve two goals. First, to give gun dealers tips on reducing the odds of selling firearms to people who are suicidal. Second, to enlist gun shops in educating their customers about the value of storing someone’s guns for them if they are suicidal. Evan Hughes, vice president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, said his organization only recently learned of the gun shop project from Donahue. Hughes has encamped at the Statehouse as several Senate committees debate gun issues. “At this point we are dealing with this,” he said, pointing to a Senate committee room where deliberations had taken place on S.31, a bill introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore John Campbell that has drawn fire from gun-rights groups. Dressed in blaze orange, opponents swarmed the Statehouse several weeks ago to argue against it. Gun Sense Vermont, which supports the legislation, states on its website that it advocates “for measures that will help keep guns out of the wrong hands.”
MENTAL HEALTH Originally S.31 called for expanding background checks for gun purchases, upholding the federal law of barring felons from possessing firearms on the state level and mandating that the courts report the names of people they have declared dangerous and mentally ill to a federal background-check database. The background-check expansion has since been abandoned, but the Senate committee will talk again this week about the felony possession ban. While gunrights representatives continue to lobby against any legislation, some say the gun shop project might be a palatable option.
“If there is something new that works, we will look at that,” said Hughes. “We are obviously interested in firearm safety.” Ralph Demicco is cochair of the New Hampshire Firearm Safety Coalition — an ad-hoc, 20-year-old group of gun shop and shooting-range owners, health and safety professionals, and lawmakers that share a commitment to improving firearm safety and preventing suicide. Demicco is also a partially retired owner of Riley’s Sport Shop in Hookset, N.H. He recalled a phone call he received in 2009 from Elaine Frank, cochair at the firearm safety coalition. During a seven-day period, Demicco
learned, his shop sold guns to three individuals who used the weapons to kill themselves. “I was appalled,” Demicco said in a telephone interview. “Nothing in the behavior of these individuals gave a hint.” That motivated Demicco to have the coalition investigate the problem. Aided by suicide-prevention researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the coalition came up with a strategy tailored to gun shops. It provides posters that pose the question “Concerned About a Family Member or Friend?” and a recommendation: “Hold On To Their Guns.” Cards list suicide-warning signs and provide a local number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Gun shop owners are encouraged to display those materials in a prominent place — but there’s no obligation to distribute them. For their own edification, a video and “tip sheet” offer “signs that a potential buyer could be suicidal.” If a customer doesn’t know anything about guns, doesn’t appear to care what kind he or she buys, has never shot before or only buys a few bullets, gun shop employees should be suspicious. “Options for responding to a potentially suicidal buyer” range from asking the customer why he or she needs a gun to notifying other gun dealers and police. Frank stressed that the project doesn’t ask gun shop personnel to become mental-health professionals. “There is a subtle line you have to draw educating people on the role they can play without holding people responsible for decisions other people make,” she said. Demicco, an ardent Second Amendment advocate, said it was important to him “to make it a suicide message, not an anti-firearm message.” Project planners consulted with gun shop owners to develop the materials, which Demicco said helps explain why nearly half of the gun dealers in New Hampshire have participated in the project since it launched in 2011. “The message is good,” Demicco said, noting other places have started the program. Tennessee, Maryland and Las Vegas all have used the New Hampshire project as a model. Catherine Barber, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center’s Means Matter campaign, which focuses on how people commit suicide, helped
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design the project. Barber also cowrote a recently published study about the gun shop owners’ acceptance of the strategy. It’s too early to know if the project is impacting suicide rates. “The number of recent-purchase suicides in New Hampshire dropped after the campaign,” Barber said, “but the numbers are small, so they can’t be pointed to as statistical evidence of having an impact.” One thing is clear: The project has started a conversation in the gun-owning community about how to reduce the risk of suicide by firearm, Barber said. She compared it to spreading the word about having a designated driver when drinking alcohol. Barber said that working similarly with Vermont’s gun community would be more effective than drafting laws. “Legislative things really do seem to get people scrambling to their battle stations,” she said, while the project’s suicide-prevention message complements the strong safety culture in many gun organizations.
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A study from the Brattleboro-based Center for Health & Learning reinforces that belief. The state-funded study recommended the gun shop project as one of several non-legislative approaches to reaching the people most at risk of suicide by firearm. “Our recommendation is definitely yes, we should do it,” said Alexander Potter, the researcher who wrote the report. He made the case that tackling the problem from inside the gun-owning community — using its “culture of watching out for each other” and pride in its commitment to gun safety — would work. “We would love to run with it,” Potter said of a potential gun shop project in Vermont. “We would love to be doing the outreach.” But center director JoEllen Tarallo-Falk said it was up to the state Department of Mental Health “to decide how and when to move forward.” Dr. Jaskanwar Batra, that department’s medical director, sees the gun shop project as one of several strategies that would be helpful in reducing suicides — especially by guns. “It makes a lot of sense. Instead of getting in a fight, let’s join hands,” he said. When asked who should take the lead,
Batra said, “I’m not sure. I sense it could be the coalition.” Batra meant the Vermont Suicide Prevention Coalition, which includes representatives of the departments of mental health and corrections, the state medical examiner, the Veterans Administration, colleges, hospitals, mental health agencies, families of people who committed suicide, and individuals with suicide histories. The coalition has yet to review Potter’s report, Batra said. Frank, of the New Hampshire coalition, stressed the need to include the gun community from the start. Because of the divisiveness of gun issues, she said, “You only get one chance to launch this stuff.” Gun Sense Vermont, the organization pushing the bill to strengthen Vermont’s gun laws, supports the gun shop project. “We were discussing trying to do something like that two years ago,” said Gun Sense president Ann Braden. The group backed away, she said, “because it is important that it come from the gun shop owners.” Both sides of the gun debate agree that the project has merit, but many are still unfamiliar with it. Two local gun shop owners said they had never heard about the New Hampshire project, and a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a trade association for gun dealers — also said he didn’t know much about it. Jay O’Brien, owner of B.J.’s Hunting and Shooting Supply in Williston, knows that a couple of guns sold at his shop were used in suicides. One was sold to Cheryl Hanna, a well-known lawyer and legal commentator who took her own life last July. “She fooled us,” O’Brien told Seven Days in an interview last September. He said she appeared calm and poised when she came in to purchase the gun. “You can’t tell,” O’Brien said, echoing Demicco’s point. “We ask leading questions, but if they lie to us?” O’Brien said the description of the gun shop project “sounded like most of it is common sense.” Back at the Statehouse, Sen. Claire Ayer (D-Addison), one of S.31’s sponsors, learned of the gun shop project during testimony on the pending bill two weeks ago. Ayer described how people from both sides of the gun battle huddled outside her committee room for a few minutes to talk about the project, adding, “That may be one of the best things that has happened because of this bill.” m
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Robert “Bob” Piche, age 80, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on March 2, 2015, at UVM Medical Center. Bob was born in Winooski on October 16, 1934, to Ruth (Packard) and Isadore Piche. Bob married Pauline Leclerc on May 3, 1958, in Winooski. Bob graduated from Winooski High School and served two years in the U.S. Army as an MP stationed in Hawaii. Afterward, Bob went to work for General Electric in Quality Control as an inspector and planner. He retired as manager of QC planning in 1989. Left to cherish Bob’s memory are his wife of 56 years, Pauline, and his children: Karen Allen and her husband, Brian, of Grand Isle, Timothy and his wife, Deb (Pepin), of Grand Isle, and Jeff and his wife, Michelle (Thebarge), of Fairfax, along with his seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, with the 10th due in April. He was predeceased by his father, mother and seven siblings. Bob will be remembered for his sense of humor, love of the Boston Red Sox and devotion to family. The family is grateful for the wonderful team of medical practitioners at the UVM Medical Center. A funeral mass was held Saturday, March 7, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Williston. For those who wish, contributions may be made in Bob’s memory to either the American Lung Association or the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Arrangements are under the care and direction of LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.
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of Burlington; two brothers, Nathaniel and Marcus; a niece, Nicole CaesarMitchell; grand-nephew Malachi Mitchell; a host of cousins; other relatives; and friends. A special thanks from Thomasina to Jim Meunier of Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home; Stacey, Amy and Jim of Dunwright Taxi; Vermont Vietnam Vets; and Vermont Thunder. Acknowledgement: The family of the late Samuel Dinkins Jr. wishes to express deep and heartfelt appreciation for your loving thoughtfulness and concern, including cards, flowers, phone calls and visits. Thank you to Sully and family, Janet Grant, Mandelo Wesley, Daniel Hoose, Alan Bushey, Catherina Alexander, William Hildreth, Edward Williams, Carl and Lisa Holmes, Margaret Rosebrough and Joseph Brown. May God bless you, and may His peace be with you always.
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there, he also earned the Outstanding Student Award. He had an extensive professional career with the military as a physical education recreation manager. That career afforded him the opportunity to work in various locations, some of which include California, New York, Dallas, Virginia, District of Columbia and Germany. The latter part of his life was spent in Burlington, where he worked at Special Services Transportation Agency, Champlain Community Services, Fletcher Allen Health Care and the Burlington Free Press. Samuel departed this life on Friday, March 7, 2014, at Fletcher Allen Memorial Hospital. He was a gentle spirit and will be dearly missed by many. He leaves to mourn his passing his mother; two sons Samuel III and Michael; daughter Marlo; six grandchildren: Samuel IV, Samson, Bradford, Zahra, Nyla, Nasir and Bilal; one sister, Thomasina Caesar,
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Samuel Dinkins Jr., son of Mary Brisbane and the late Samuel Dinkins Sr. was born on June 26, 1947, in Harlem Hospital, New York, N.Y. He was reared in Brooklyn and Manhattan, N.Y. As a youngster he was a Scout member of the cub pack and troop pack of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, of which he was also a member. His early education was in Brooklyn public schools. He attended Chelsea High School in Manhattan, where he was a three-year All City basketball player. He had passion for sports and loved basketball. He was married to the former Johnnie Giddens and from their union two sons, Samuel Dinkins III and Michael, were born. Later in life he was blessed with a daughter Marlo Carter. In 1969 he was drafted to the Vietnam War, where he served his country until his honorable discharge in 1971. While in Vietnam he received several medals and commendations, some of which include National Defense Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with two Bronze service stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal with 60 Device, and the Bronze Star medal. Upon leaving the military he pursued his higher education at City College of New York. He received a bachelor of arts in physical education. Additionally, he received a certificate from the Army Reserve School. While
Frank Ray Keyser Jr. passed away on Saturday, March 7, 2015, surrounded by the family he loved and inspired. Ray was born in Chelsea, on August 17, 1927. A passionate father, civic leader, fisherman and hunter, he was devoted to his home state of Vermont. Ray was the 72nd governor of Vermont from 1961 to 1963, and earlier served as speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives. He served in the U.S. Navy, and after his discharge in 1946, he attended Tufts University and graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1952. At Tufts, he met and married Joan (Friedgen) Keyser, and following graduation they moved back to Chelsea, where they had three children, Chris, Carol and Frank. Ray joined his father, the Honorable F. Ray Keyser Sr., and former Vermont governor Stanley Wilson at the law firm of Wilson & Keyser. In 1965, Ray and Joan moved their family to Proctor, and Ray joined the Vermont Marble Company, where in 1970 he became the chief executive officer. They remained connected to Chelsea, where they built a home and a 5.5-acre pond on acreage outside of town. For Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, and throughout the year, Ray’s children and their children have gathered at this home, simply called Camp. He was proud to tell friends that as a result, the cousins were as close as siblings. During his long career, Ray served the business
community as chairman of the board of the Hitchcock Clinic and as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Union Mutual Insurance Company, the Vermont Golf Association, the Green Mountain Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Associated Industries of Vermont, Central Vermont Public Service Corp., S-K-I, Ltd., and numerous other organizations, both in Vermont and nationally. He was a Mason and helped design the expansion of the Proctor-Pittsford Country Club, of which he was a stockholder. After Joan’s death in 2002, Ray began spending winters in Hernando, Fla. He met and married Mary Lou (Underhill) Keyser in 2005, in a Christmastime ceremony. He and Mary Lou enjoyed playing golf and bridge with their many friends in Florida. Ray devoted himself to writing his memoirs, which his family intends to publish soon. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Keyser; his sister, Natalie Niles; his children, Christopher Scott Keyser, Carol Ellen Fjeld and Frank Ray Keyser III, and their spouses, Jane Kosmider, George Fjeld, and Pam Keyser; his grandchildren, Ariana Malutich, Mary Rachel Voity, Jessica Fjeld, Chelsea Keyser, Troy Keyser, Hannah Fjeld, Amy Sheppard, Christian Fjeld and Kalle Joan Fjeld, and their spouses, Matt Malutich, Matthew Voity, Benjamin Bearnot, Martin Fjeld, Mark Sheppard, and Jana Čuljak; and his great-grandchildren Maci Mae Voity, Maggie Ray Voity, and Veda Malutich. Services will be held in Chelsea in the spring. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the United Church of Chelsea, Ducks Unlimited, the Chelsea Fish & Game Club, or the Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice. The Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home in Chelsea is in charge of arrangements. A private message of sympathy can be shared at boardwayandcilley.com.
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of the performing arts. Though BCA puts on such annual events as the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, the Festival of Fools and concerts in City Hall Park, many of its resources and educational programs are indeed devoted to the visual arts. One person’s grumbling about BCA is nothing new. But Lockridge’s petition garnered 348 signatures in the four days before he closed it. Did he tap into a simmering undercurrent of resentment toward BCA? Or was the petition a display of sour grapes on the part of the BHW founder, who has
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lecturers but folks you might bump into on any given day at the Plainfield Post Office: ordinary people with extraordinary talents and areas of expertise. Town Braintap is the brainchild of McNaughton, EMILY JOHANSEN and JEANNE HASKELL and is loosely based on community education programs that Johansen came across in travels around the country. In late 2013, the three friends began building the concept for their own purpose. “It so happens I love to hear people talk about what they do,” McNaughton says, “whether it’s academic or technical, making fine art or artfully grading the town roads. We wondered, How could you entice people around here to share their knowledge, talents and skills with others? And how could you structure it in a way that didn’t feel socially intimidating or downright peculiar?”
The answers took form in a debut season of events in March 2014, and it was an instant hit with the community. Highlights included the workshop “Empower Yourself at Home: Handling Common Power Tools,” presented by local high school teacher TREVOR TAIT. The series specializes in what its creators have dubbed “edu-tainment,” and which McNaughton defines as “a recreational learning experience — nothing you have to put effort into or expect any benefit from beyond an evening’s amusement.” Its third season — there are two per year: one in March/April, the other in October/ November — kicks off on March 18 and promises some amusing events. Some of the offerings to come: “The Tao of Right Now: An Intro to the Practices and Uses of Mindfulness” with SUSANNAH
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arts office about how money is spent, and how arts planning and policies are developed,” Lockridge says in an interview. BCA, a unique hybrid that’s both a city department and a nonprofit arts foundation, gets about 40 percent of its $1.25 million annual income from taxpayer support. The rest comes from matching private and corporate donations, grants, membership fees and the like. Over the years, BCA has occasionally been criticized for its perceived bias in supporting the visual arts at the expense
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n 2013, BURLINGTON CITY ARTS paid 174 artists more than a quarter million dollars for their creative efforts. That money, which came from a combination of public tax revenues and private philanthropy, covered such expenses as art sales, teachers’ salaries, payments to performers and stipends for exhibiting artists. Those artists who’ve benefitted from this and other BCA largesse over the years are likely to say good things about the city’s premier arts organization. Those who’ve felt left out, perhaps not so much. Among the latter is JAMES LOCKRIDGE, executive director of the Burlington nonprofit BIG HEAVY WORLD, which provides technical and other support to local musicians. Last October, Lockridge circulated an online petition criticizing BCA’s governance and allocation of its resources. His statement read in part: “A spirit of inclusion and collaboration has been missing from the city’s arts mission, and the activities of the city arts office haven’t addressed the needs of all artists, or all areas of the city.” Lockridge called on the Burlington City Council and Mayor MIRO WEINBERGER to create a “Burlington arts commission” to oversee BCA and make its operations more fair, transparent and inclusive. “There is no public process for me, or anyone else, to step up and play a role in how decisions are made within our city
previously locked horns with BCA’s longtime executive director, DOREEN KRAFT? The answers to such questions depend on whom you ask. Privately, Lockridge’s critics — and even many of his supporters — say he can be obsessive about this issue, as evidenced by his personal blog, bigheavy world.com/asspheasant, which chronicles every detail of his arts-advocacy crusade. Still, “I don’t believe it’s just Jim,” suggests MARK WASKOW, president of the SOUTH END ARTS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION and a noted art collector. “There’s definitely a mixed perception in the community in regards to BCA, but I don’t think that’s a surprise. Any time you have a large organization, you’re going to have people taking shots at you.” Waskow, who emphasizes that he’s speaking on his own behalf and not that of SEABA, says, “When Jim first came out with this missive, I thought it was great, and I was ready to jump on board.” Upon further consideration, however, Waskow says he withdrew his support for the creation of another city commission, whose members would likely be political appointees. Waskow explains that he’s not convinced such a commission would serve Burlington’s arts community any better than BCA’s current oversight by an 18-member board of directors appointed by the mayor. “I still think this discussion is worth having,” Waskow adds. “It’s something that hasn’t taken place before that I’m aware of.” BEN BERGSTEIN is founder and artistic director of NORTH END STUDIOS, a nonprofit dance and performance space in the Old North End. He toured internationally as a choreographer and was an artist-inresidence with the State of Vermont for 20
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years. Bergstein says that BCA has always initially interpreted signing the petition felt more like “a competitor rather than a as just another way to show her support for public arts funding and participation collaborator.” He supports the idea of creating a city in Burlington. But after reading some of arts commission, suggesting that BCA the signatories’ comments, including ones should be more supportive of local pro- that seemed to her excessively vitriolic, ducers in theater, dance and music. Moulton withdrew her support. “We here personally don’t have any “Without Doreen Kraft, I can’t imagine axes to grind with BCA,” Bergstein adds. where our arts would be in Burlington,” “We know Doreen. She’s our friend, and Moulton says. “She has worked her entire we talk all the time. We’ve professional career to supalso made it very clear to port the arts and make art her that we haven’t felt accessible to people of all that [all artists play on] a ages, and I totally love and March 18 - screening the film, level playing field.” admire her for that.” TiM’s VerMeer Not everyone agrees Moulton, who is also a 7:00 PM at Feldman’s Bagels (660 Pine street) with the claim that BCA financial underwriter of Free and Open to the Public gives the performing Big Heavy World, agreed arts short shift. Bryan last fall to mediate a twoAlso, VisiT our FeATured MArch exhiBiT hour meeting of Lockridge Parmelee is a Burlington Trapping Boats of lake champlain musician with the band and Kraft to try to iron out Pours, which he describes their differences. Though JiM LOckRiDgE as “spacy indie rock.” He the meeting ended amicasays he first got involved with BCA when bly, no one buried the hatchet. he did a record-release show at the Bca Each party came away from that talk with a different interpretation of its outcenter on Church Street in 2011, an event he calls “wildly successful.” Since then, come. Lockridge claims that Kraft agreed Join us for a talk given by project lead and he says, many other musicians, both local to add seats to the BCA board, to announce master boatbuilder, douglas Brooks and touring acts, have held shows there. its meetings publicly (a policy it has since Jacob and Kristin Albee March 26th - 6PM at the Gallery JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 (According to BCA’s own records, at least adopted), and to allow for a public com40 music events have been held in the ment period at those meetings. He adds WWW.FROGHOLLOW.ORG 41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY center in the past year alone.) that when he attended the BCA board’s 85 Church St. Burlington VT 802-863-6458 “I was definitely confused by those criti- next meeting, none of Kraft’s “promises” cisms leveled against BCA,” Parmelee says, appeared to have been kept. describing them as “demonstrably false.” He “I didn’t show up as a smart-ass know3/9/15 8V-JacobAlbee031214.indd 12:10 PM 1 3/11/14 adds that BCA has been “nothing but sup- it-all with all the answers,” Lockridge says.8v-froghollow031115.indd 1 portive” to him and fellow musician friends. “I was just like, ‘You’ve got issues. Here are Some people who signed Lockridge’s your allies in the arts community, and we petition may not have understood its want to work with you to fix them.’” intent. melinDa moulton, cofounder and CEO of main street lanDing, says she BHW DiREcTOR » p.24
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Blachly, a professional therapist and musician (March 18); “This Is Your Brain … on Fun: Serious Adult Uses for Outright Silliness” with Diana and Jessamine levine (March 25); “Reaping What Was Sewn: Reclaiming History through the Recreation of Early American Apparel (17701815),” a talk and trunk show by Justin squizzero with eliza West (April 8); and “Preserving Life and Limb: An Arborist’s Calling and a Discussion of Any TreeCare Stuff You Want to Talk About” with “Zen climber” and tree-care professional lincoln earle-centers (April 15). McNaughton wants to keep the tone light, and she believes the takeaway will be valuable. “As many of us commune more exclusively in online worlds,” she muses, “we’ve created an altogether new kind of social isolation. This is a sad casualty of our time, which I think strikes harder in rural areas. “Town Braintap events provide a conversational bridge, a comfortable way for people to meet interesting, accomplished
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Carey, 70, has a nursing degree as well as a passion for nonclinical treatments; she says her abiding goal is to “harmonize” the two. On her website, she calls herself a “private healer and spiritual guide,” offering services such as “energy healing” and “spiritual readings.” She’s equally invested in sharing her interest in Mongolia, which she’s been visiting regularly since 1994. That passion has produced one book, Reindeer Herders in My Heart, and more than half a dozen films. Carey founded and directs a charitable organization called Nomadicare, which is devoted to preserving and sustaining the unique culture of nomadic Mongolians. A former potter and masseuse, among other occupations, Carey gives credit for her polymathic tendencies to her Quaker
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Kraft points to BCA’s current “listening tour,” one of several assessments her office has done over the years of the needs and resources of various arts organizations in Burlington. The current tour has already involved interviews with at least 20 organizations. That effort, Kraft adds, is in addition to the planBTV-South End community outreach currently under way. “I think it’s important that we continue to listen to all of those voices,” Kraft says. “We realize there’s a growing, changing, dynamic community out there that isn’t the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago. So there are new needs and new opportunities for networking, and we want to be a part of that dynamic.” Kraft notes that BCA’s leadership
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Kraft remembers agreeing only to maintain an open dialogue with Lockridge; she says she didn’t promise to give him, or anyone else, a seat on the board or to make other procedural changes. She also says she’s not interested in rehashing her frictions with Lockridge. Asked if there is a way for the public to weigh in on BCA operations, Kraft says she and her staff solicit feedback from the public all the time. “We feel that there are so many doors, and so many opportunities to hear and participate in all the things we do at BCA, that it’s hard to understand what people don’t understand,” she says. 3v-vso031115.indd 1
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upbringing. “As a Quaker, you listen for your calling for what you’re supposed to do,” she says, “and it’s a changing kind of thing. You do a thing ’til you’re done with it; then you do the next thing ’til you’re done with it.” Carey gathered hundreds of hours of footage for Ceremony, her documentary about traditional Mongolian shamanic practices. One of her greatest difficulties, she says, was turning that raw material into a story that would convey her ideas about her subject. She initially wanted to include neither footage of herself nor a voiceover track in the film. But Carey eventually realized that including herself in the movie was the key to its structure, with the help of a story consultant who told her, “You really need some glue to put this together, and you’re the glue,” she says.
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does plan to alter its public-participation process. Board vacancies will soon be posted on the city’s and BCA’s websites, and the board will implement an “open application process” similar to those of other city boards and commissions. Kraft says she hopes to attract a greater diversity of applicants to the board, and will make their interviews open to the public. (The mayor will continue to make the final appointments, based on the board’s recommendations.) Kraft expects these changes to be reviewed by the city attorney and implemented within the next month or two. As for Lockridge’s proposal to create a city arts commission, it appears to be a nonstarter. Kraft says she considers such
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Carey’s decision to incorporate her own guiding presence is a boon to the film’s audience, since the shamanic practices it depicts would otherwise be inscrutable to most viewers. Mongolian shamans, for instance, consider epilepsy an indication of the sufferer’s putative healing powers. As Carey learns about this culture, she brings viewers along into a world of surpassing unfamiliarity. Shooting video in remotest Mongolia would be a challenge even for seasoned directors, but filmmaking autodidact Carey prevailed over the harsh conditions on the steppes. With no electrical grid to rely on, she had to power her gear with batteries and solar panels and to trek to shooting locations riding a horse — or a reindeer.
Ceremony’s 45 minutes condense a great deal of Carey’s own experience. Not only were its 125 hours of footage shot over the span of a decade, but the director’s access to Mongolian healing ceremonies was anything but immediate. She had to earn her subjects’ trust — not an easy task, despite having worked on the project since 2003. “It took some years until [the shamans] let me see a ceremony, and then a little bit more until they let me shoot the ceremony,” Carey says. Certain of these rituals are traditionally held only in darkened yurts, a setting where it is difficult to obtain a readable image. And visibility was only half the problem, Carey says. On the voiceover track of Ceremony, she comments on a ceremony that she witnessed and filmed while in the dark: “It’s not until the next year, when I show the footage to the … shamans for them to explain, that I understand what I’m seeing.” When Carey speaks of the ceremonies she witnessed, it’s clear that she was strongly impressed by their visceral force. “Their system is thousands and thousands of years old,” she says. “It’s very powerful. They just allow their souls to leave their bodies. They’re just like shells that are accepting their ancestors’ spirits, and they start acting like something else. In the movie, [a shaman named] Nergui starts howling like a wolf. It’s like the energy of the wolf is in his body.” Medical doctors might not be impressed by such techniques, but Carey is sincere in her awe for the millennia-old healing traditions — a sincerity that comes through clearly in her latest film. m
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or Kirsten Connor, 2011 was the best and worst of times. For years, the founder and owner of Flourish Natural Body Care, maker of organic shampoos, conditioners and other body- and hair-care products, had struggled to get her wares into stores. The Woodstock-based business had barely weathered the recession when a Whole Foods Market in Portland, Name Maine, agreed to take Kirsten Connor’s products. Connor Finally, things were starting to happen. Town Then, on August Woodstock 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene flooded Job central Vermont and Owner, washed away years’ Flourish worth of Connor’s Natural work in 20 minutes. Body Care It took her and her husband, Darren McCullough, six months to rebuild their home and business. By the time Flourish was up and running again, Whole Foods wasn’t interested. It had already filled its shelves with competitors’ goods. Connor’s solution: Lather, rinse and repeat. Though she founded her business on selling handmade soaps, Connor’s focus since then has shifted to creating organic, small-batch hair and body goods. Most recently, those include “back-bar” products — lotions, wraps, conditioners, styling gels — used in professional salons and spas. Not bad for a woman who had to teach herself chemistry before she could master making shampoo. “I just did a ton of reading and a ton of asking questions,” recalls the Brooklynborn mother of six. “Actually, the chemical companies are extremely helpful because they want to sell you product.” Today, Flourish produces about 60 different products that are sold in more than 50 stores in eight states, including many Vermont food co-ops. Much of Flourish’s consumer appeal, Connor says, stems from its use of only organic or Ecocert-certified ingredients, the latter of which are held to some of the body-care industry’s most rigorous standards. Connor also sources as many of her ingredients locally as possible. In fact, by later this year, she expects to harvest all the herbs used in Flourish products from her own five-acre farm, which sits along Woodstock’s Ottauquechee River.
“It’s never flooded there before in the written history of Vermont,” she says about her fertile patch of farmland. “So I’m going to take my chances.” Connor’s recent success has come at a price. She often works seven days a week and has taken only one weekend day off in the past six weeks, she says. Most days, she picks up her kids from school, then returns for another few hours to creating new scents, formulating new products or packaging and labeling existing ones. “It’s a very, very full-time job,” she admits. “But I love what I do, so that’s OK.”
SD: What’s been your most successful creation? KC: I would have to say the shampoos and conditioners. The product we get the most comments about is the Patchouli Tangerine [Calming] Shampoo. We recently got an email from some guy who moved from Burlington to South Carolina, who made a whole list of his top Vermont products he can’t get where he is. The Patchouli Tangerine Shampoo is on his list.
SEVEN DAYS: What’s your typical day? Put on your muck boots and rubber smock and cook up a batch of soap or shampoo? KIRSTEN CONNOR: I don’t make soap anymore. That’s a bummer. When I moved into this space, part of my rental agreement was that I wouldn’t make soap.
SD: How far-flung are your customers? KC: We sell our products in a co-op in Alaska. With our spa line, we’ve been trying to reach local spas in New England, because our line is really tailored to reflect New England. So we don’t make a coconut scent or do a tropical theme. We try to highlight local scents and local herbs. One of the fun ones we did in the fall was cocoa spice with Schisandra [magnolia vine], which grows locally. A lot of people make tea from it. It’s a really great herb.
SD: Why not? KC: I think the other tenants at the time didn’t want it. They weren’t crazy about the idea of the smell, which is crazy to me, but that’s all right.
SD: Are there advantages to having your business in Vermont? KC: Definitely the advantages are that there’s so much local support for locally made products. People in Vermont just
go crazy for locally made stuff. This is not something I could have tackled in New York state. SD: What’s the best part of your job? KC: The formulating part, thinking up new products. I love making product. I don’t love labeling, but I love cooking up the batches. SD: Do you think any of your kids will join the business? KC: My daughter Mallory, who just turned 21, actually has the most amazing sense of smell, so I can rely on her to do all sorts of product testing and smelling. She’s very into it. All of her friends who come visit are into the sugar body polish. It’s an exfoliant with organic sugar suspended in organic coconut oil. It takes all your dry, itchy skin off and leaves you moisturized. They’re all addicted to it. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com
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or our last WTF of 2014 back in December, we noted that many of the questions we receive from readers have to do with roads, and we included a sampling of them that we hadn’t yet investigated. Turns out, peeps over at the Vermont Agency of Transportation had a good time addressing the questions — when they weren’t busy plowing, presumably — and were kind enough to share their answers with us. (Our thanks to media contact Erik Filkorn and deputy chief engineer Kevin Marshia for compiling them.) We divvied the readers’ questions up into two parts, the first of which you can find at sevendaysvt.com. Here’s the second. This is a perennial question: I know the salt is bad for the car and for my dog’s little paws, but how bad is it? I’m curious to know what the environmental impact of all this salt is, how much is used every year, and if the benefit of using salt outweighs the negative impacts.
Some readers are flummoxed by Vermont’s highway markings. What about the exit-numbering system, sequential versus more common/standard way of using mile markers? And… When is Vermont going to enter the 21st century and renumber our interstate exits by mile marker? VTRANS: This is a story where timing is everything. Back in 2009, federal requirements were passed mandating that each state move to the new mileage-based exits, but we were right in the middle of replacing our signs to bring them up to current retro-reflectivity standards (very shiny). We’d already made all the signs, and it seemed wasteful to trash them, since they’re supposed to last about 15 years. Changing to the mileage-based numbering system is going to mean changing a lot of other things. If you’re a business with an exit number in your name, or if you make tourist maps, you should be planning your letterhead order so that it runs out around 2020. VTrans plans to do a lot of work with the regional planning commissions and chambers of commerce on this front in the coming years in advance of the rollout, as it will be a culture shock to some.
Another reader is looking for a quicker way to get into and out of South Burlington. Since I-89 connects to I-189, and I-189 connects to the south end of Dorset Street, why no access to and from the south end of Dorset Street to and from I-89 via Exit 13? Seems it would relieve much of the congestion in the clusterfuck at Exit 14 by those who could take Kennedy Drive and bypass Williston Road. VTRANS: Yes, this would seem simple enough. And it might be, if we were in the middle of a big, empty salt flat in Utah. But this is a pretty densely packed neighborhood with a lot of things going on, including homes, businesses and sensitive environmental areas. This has been discussed off and on for many years. If we were to upgrade the interchange, the Federal Highway Administration would require us to upgrade to “full service,” providing northbound and southbound access to I-89 from Dorset/ Kennedy as well as southbound I-89 access to the same. In other words, we can’t just do one ramp; we would have to do one serious Hot Wheels track. This also ties into an ongoing discussion about a new ramp system at I-89 and VT 116 (commonly referred to as Exit 12B, though that would change after 2020, if you’re keeping score), just down the road. So it becomes a much larger discussion about land use, traffic management and economic growth. The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission has a wealth of information on this at ccrpcvt.org.
And finally, another exit oddity. Why does the interchange where I-89 meets I-91 in White River Junction have no number? It is the only unnumbered exit in the entire U.S. interstate system that I can recall coming across. … When the roads were built, did someone just forget, and start the numbering at Quechee? VTRANS: We checked with one person here who was around when the interstate was built, and it’s something of a mystery even to him. Northbound on I-91, the interchange is Exit 10, but it couldn’t be named Exit 10 southbound on 89, or it would be in conflict with Richmond. In looking at the route logs, the sketches clearly show Ramp A and Ramp B, but not any exit number. While Vermont is one of a kind in many ways, you only have to travel as far as Concord, N.H., where I-89 meets I-93, to find a similar situation. We’ll keep researching it because now we’re curious, too. m
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VTRANS: Road salt is the same as the salt on the dinner table, NaCl, just bigger particles and not as clean. VTrans uses about 100,000 tons of salt per year on our highways statewide, based on a five-year average; last year we used more than two million gallons of salt brine. But with three severe winters in a row (including this one), those numbers are growing. At times VTrans will mix additives into dry salt or salt brine to make it work better at lower temperatures. We use a product called Ice B’Gone (IBG) that is essentially water, molasses and magnesium chloride. IBG also makes the salt or brine sticky so it stays on the road better. Our own field-testing and that of other organizations has determined it to be less corrosive than salt. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency rates IBG as “designed for the environment.” The problem with additives like IBG and other salt alternatives is the cost. It costs 10 times as much as salt brine. When all is said and done, there is no more cost-effective way to melt snow and ice than good oldfashioned road salt. As for environmental impact, the bottom line is that road sand and chlorides are having a growing detrimental effect. When we allow sand and salt into our water ecosystems, it doesn’t break down or disappear; it stays there until it’s removed. Since large-scale removal is not technologically or economically feasible, it behooves us to limit the amount of sand and salt entering the environment. In fact, it’s become such a problem that, in a year or two, we expect to be faced with a new federal regulation on the total maximum daily load of chloride; it will mandate that certain actions be taken to reduce chloride discharges to surface and ground water. VTrans is ahead of the curve, as the agency has taken steps to reduce usage in the application phase of chlorides. But we definitely have more work to do on how we store materials and manage our brine production/waste recovery-reuse process. We will also need to get a better handle on how and where we wash trucks in the winter to minimize
discharging chloride-laden wash water. Towns will be faced with the same challenges. The other big issue with chlorides in the environment is corrosion. Simply put, salt — whether dry or brine — is corrosive. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine also tackled this. It concluded that the total number of chlorides in the environment has a much stronger influence on metal corrosion than the type of chloride-based de-icer or the method of application. We believe that by continuing to actively manage our storage and usage of chlorides, we can limit how much we introduce into the environment. But we are under constant fire from impatient winter drivers who want us to use more and more salt and sand so they can go faster during winter storms. Interestingly, we continue to see more highway fatalities in the summer. This tells us that, no matter how much salt we use, there will always be people willing to drive too fast for conditions and put themselves and others at risk.
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inferno as the experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps, which regularly crossed the line into pure sadism and horror — like the one where condemned female prisoners were told the date they’d be executed so researchers could study the effect of the psychological trauma on the women’s menstrual cycles. But most Nazi medical research was intensely professional; proportionately, more German physicians (48 percent) joined the Nazi party than any other occupation. And Germany was a science powerhouse; through 1939, Germans accounted for more than a third of all Nobel prizes in medicine, chemistry, and physics. So yes, there’s plenty of Naziera research that doctors have used and built on ever since: Nazi scientists were pioneers in the study of hormones and vitamins, they were the first to discover the link between smoking and lung cancer, and they had the most aggressive and successful cancer-prevention program of the time.
But the data gathered in the concentration camps tended towards the gruesome, unscientific and fairly useless. Two cases where these experiments did have some clear publichealth application, though, involved phosgene gas and hypothermia. The latter was part of German efforts to save Luftwaffe pilots downed in the North Sea: working at Dachau, SS doctor Sigmund Rascher had prisoners strapped down naked in freezing weather or submerged in ice water for hours at a time; blood, urine, and mucus samples were taken regularly while their body temperature dropped. On one hand, Rascher obtained data that no responsible researcher ever could, and he developed the life-saving hypothermia treatment technique called rapid active rewarming. On the other hand, he killed as many as 90 people to do it. The Dachau data were published in a 1946 report by a U.S. medical adviser at the
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ou’re actually both right — but then again, pretty much all medical research back then was a dirty little secret. These days studies consist of college kids getting paid 40 bucks to smoke weed and sit in an MRI scanner for an hour, but things were different back in the day: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, where rural men with the disease were kept ignorant of their condition and prevented from getting treatment, is justly infamous, but there’s also the ’40s case where inmates at a New York correctional facility were directed to swallow suspended fecal matter so researchers could study a stomach bug. In 1942 Jonas Salk himself led a study that injected insane-asylum patients in Michigan with an experimental flu vaccine, apparently with less than fully informed consent. The list goes on. Of course, if we’re talking circles of hell, none of these would place you as deep in the
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Nuremberg trials and quietly used by various researchers over the years until in 1988 Dr. Robert Pozos of the University of Minnesota’s Hypothermia Laboratory brought Rascher’s work to wider attention in hopes of starting a discussion about bioethics. He got one: Impassioned doctors, ethicists and Holocaust survivors weighed in; conferences were organized. The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine flatly declared the data unusable. At around the same time, authors of a draft report for the Environmental Protection Agency cited Nazi data on phosgene from 1943, when doctors exposed 52 prisoners to the gas (used as a chemical weapon in World War I) and timed how long it took them to die. This information was relevant to regulating phosgene use at U.S. plastics and pesticide plants, but 22 EPA scientists wrote a letter objecting, and the cite was deleted. Josef Mengele’s work didn’t pose such ethical quandaries. He’d published one prewar paper on hereditary cleft palates, but his notorious experiments at Auschwitz on hundreds of pairs of twins produced no notable conclusions.
He did, however, contribute significantly to a subtler Nazi plot: the channeling of thousands of victims’ brains and other organs, cadavers, and blood and tissue samples to major research institutions, including the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. Many prominent German neuroscientists worked with the brains: Julius Hallervorden, for example, went on to discover a rare neurodegenerative disorder that until recently bore his name (now it’s called NBIA). Most of these doctors died with their reputations intact. But that was legitimate lab work. By contrast, the camp experiments were never likely to be good science: besides being overly concerned with efficient methods of killing people, they were tainted by racial bias and the use of atypically unhealthy subject groups. Their only really useful outcome was the Nuremberg Code — the first major enumeration of international research ethics, written into the verdict of the Nazi doctors’ trial in 1947. It took humanity 200,000 years, but we finally developed the moral maturity to realize you shouldn’t feed unwitting schoolchildren radioactive breakfast cereal just to see what happens.
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arlier this year, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin admitted to reporters that he used to smoke pot when he was younger but gave it up because, “It wasn’t much fun anymore.” Bummer, Pete! The Seven Days Weeders Survey is meant for the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 other Vermonters for whom smoking pot still is fun. By now, you’ve probably heard the results of the RAND Corporation report on the potential impact of legalizing recreational marijuana in Vermont. Among other things, it found that legalization could reduce law-enforcement costs by $1 million and raise an estimated $20 million to $75 million annually in tax revenues — more, if we add the nearly 40 times as many regular pot smokers who live within 200 miles of Vermont’s borders as within the state itself. In our survey, though, we want to learn more about you, the cannabis consumer: when, why and how often you consume, with whom you’re inclined to indulge, how much you pay to partake, and what you love doing when you’re high. We’d also like to know what you know, or don’t know, about the stuff you’re using, where you get it and where it comes from.
13. In what kind of container do you store your weed?
Paranoid about privacy? This survey is anonymous. Seven Days will not collect, publish or distribute any uniquely identifiable information about you to other parties. That said, if you take this survey on the internet, we’re using third-party survey software, so we cannot make any guarantees about the privacy of your remarks. Those who are concerned about digital eavesdroppers knowing when and how you enjoy your green bud can fill out this paper survey instead.
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_____________________________ 14. What kind of effect does weed usually have on your... ([+] positive; [—] negative; [N] none) ____ Creativity ____ Libido ____ Sex ____ Sleep ____ Sociability ____ Motor skills/coordination ____ Concentration ____ Anxiety ____ Depression ____ Stress
START HERE 1. Your current age __________ 2. Your gender
3. County of residence _____________________________ 4. Nearest political affiliation Democrat Independent Libertarian Progressive Republican Other __________________
5. Formal education
7. Housing situation ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
Living with parents/guardians Student housing Renter Homeowner Government-subsidized Retirement/assisted living Homeless/transitional/ uncertain
8. This survey is designed for people who consider themselves to be semiregular marijuana users. Your choice below will take you to a version of the survey that makes the most sense for you. ❍ I’ve used pot at least once in the past year. (Continue to #9.) ❍ I used to use pot, but I’ve quit for now. (Skip to #51 on p. 30.) ❍ I’ve never used pot, but I’m curious about this survey and pot legalization in general. (Skip to #51 on p. 30.)
10. How often do you partake currently? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
Hourly Daily Most days Weekly Only on weekends Monthly Only at parties Only on holidays or special occasions
11. What time of day do you most often get high? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
Wake ’n’ bake Before work/school During work/school After work/school Late night
12. Rank your preferred methods for using weed 1 = most preferred; 7 = least ____ Smoke a joint ____ Smoke a bowl ____ Bong hits ____ Vaporizer ____ Oil pen ____ Dabs ____ Infused edibles
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____ Overall physical health
15. What other drugs do you use recreationally? ([1] not at all; [2] not currently; [3] occasionally; [4] regularly) ____ Alcohol ____ Amphetamines ____ Bath salts ____ Caffeine ____ Cocaine/crack ____ Ecstasy/Molly ____ GHB ____ Heroin ____ Inhalants ____ LSD ____ Crystal meth ____ Mushrooms/peyote ____ Prescription opiates ____ Steroids ____ Tobacco
Of course I used to know. I’d like to know. No, and I don’t care.
18. Do you know the variety/strain name of the weed you usually consume? ❍ No, and I don’t care. ❍ No, I’ve never asked. ❍ I wish! All I know is it comes in a baggie. ❍ Yes! It’s called __________________
19. Where is your weed grown? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
In Vermont Outside Vermont Both I have no idea.
20. Do you grow your own weed? ❍ Yes, I have a medical marijuana card. ❍ Yes, it’s legal to grow where I live. ❍ Yes, I do it illegally. ❍ I’ve tried, but failed. ❍ No
21. What’s the largest amount of weed you’ve had on hand at one time? A joint or two An eighth of an ounce A quarter of an ounce An ounce More than an ounce, but less than a pound ❍ A pound or more ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
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Single Dating Serious relationship Polyamorous Fluid Coupled but unmarried Married Separated Divorced Widowed
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17. Do you know the difference between Indica and Sativa strains of marijuana?
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9. How old were you the first time you smoked pot?
Check all that apply. ❍ Yes. I don’t get hungover. ❍ Yes. I prefer the buzz and have more fun than on other drugs. ❍ Yes. I function better and can relate to others easier. ❍ Yes. I don’t fall down or do as many stupid things. ❍ Yes. I’m funnier and more entertaining/creative/ insightful/clever. ❍ Wow, this test is hard. I prefer to be graded pass/fail. ❍ I don’t do any other drugs or alcohol. ❍ No. I prefer other drugs over weed.
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6. Relationship status
16. Do you prefer weed over most other intoxicants?
Counting is hard.
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Today This week This month In the past year In the past five years When George W. was still in office When Monica Lewinsky jokes were still funny When disco was still all the rage At Woodstock Before Bob Dylan went electric I’ve never bought it myself.
23. How much did you spend on your last marijuana purchase?
____ Being alone and contemplating the meaning of existence
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____ Watching TV and/or playing video games
35. Does your family know that you partake?
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_____________________________ 31. What’s the most productive thing you’ve ever done while high on weed? _____________________________ _____________________________ 32. When you get the munchies, what do you crave the most?
____ Listening to music ____ Writing, making art, playing music or doing another creative endeavor ____ Working/problem solving/ cleaning the house/other chores ____ Being outdoors in nature
____ Sweets/desserts
____ Having sex
Price $ __________________
____ Salty foods
____ Laughing your ass off
____ Dairy
____ Partying with friends/bar hopping/clubbing/dancing
25. You prefer to get stoned... ❍ Alone ❍ With company ❍ Whenever, however and with whomever
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❍ Yes. I make money selling weed currently. ❍ Kinda. I’m a pass-through for friends, and I don’t mark up the price. ❍ No. I get high with a little help from my friends, and vice versa. ❍ I plead the fifth.
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Rank these items from best [1] to worst [6].
24. Do you deal weed?
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____ Engaging in sports or other strenuous activities
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30. What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done while high on weed?
26. Have you ever lit up in public? ❍ Yes ❍ No
27. Have you ever walked around high in public? ❍ Yes ❍ No
28. Have you ever driven a vehicle stoned? If yes, what kind? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
No I don’t drive. Car/truck Bicycle/tricycle/unicycle Snowmobile/ATV/motorboat Sailboat/kayak/canoe/inner tube Tractor/forklift/snow plow/other heavy equipment Military vehicle Aircraft Other __________________
29. Have you ever been arrested for possession, sale or use of marijuana? ❍ Yes ❍ No
____ Carbs ____ Meat
____ Eating yummy food
Questions for Past or Non-Pot Users
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1-5 years ago 6-14 years ago In the ’90s In the ’80s In the ’70s In the ’60s Earlier I never used weed.
52. If you are a former stoner, why did you quit? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
I never tried it. I have no idea. I started a family. I didn’t like it anymore. It got in the way of my work. It was too expensive. I got in trouble. I was never really a “stoner.” I just tried it.
53. If recreational marijuana is legalized in Vermont, how likely would you be to... ([D] definitely; [P] probably; [M] maybe; [U] unlikley) ____ Buy and smoke marijuana ____ Buy and use marijuana edibles ____ Grow marijuana for personal use ____ Grow marijuana commercially (become a farmer) ____ Use weed in place of other legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine) ____ Use weed in addition to other legal drugs ____ Use weed in place of other illegal drugs (coke, heroin, meth) ____ Use weed in addition to other illegal drugs ____ Use weed as a self-prescribed pain reliever ____ Use weed if prescribed by a doctor ____ Only smoke weed if offered to me, but not buy it myself ____ Get into the pot-selling/marketing/distribution business ____ Get weed for friends/family out of state ____ Campaign against it
36. If you’re a parent, have you talked to your kid(s) about your pot use? ❍ I’m not a parent. ❍ No ❍ Not yet, but I will when they’re old enough. ❍ Yes If yes, how did that go?
_____________________________ 37. As an adult, have you ever shared weed with a minor?
____ Veggies/fruits
51. If you used to smoke weed, when was the last time you lit up?
Definitely Just the older people Just the younger ones Just the family I’m close to. I have no idea. Nope. With family I’m a closet stoner.
❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Not intentionally
38. Have you ever been required to drug test for a job? ❍ No. ❍ Yes. I changed my behavior to pass it. ❍ Yes. I passed it without changing my behavior. ❍ Yes. But I refused to take it. ❍ Yes. I failed it.
39. Does your boss know that you partake? ❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Unsure
40. Do your coworkers know? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
Yes No Unsure Only those who get high, too
41. Have you gotten high with a coworker? ❍ Yes ❍ No
42. How concerned are you that others know you use weed? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
I’m not at all concerned. (in between) I have mixed feelings. (in between) No one can ever know.
43. If recreational weed were legal, how concerned would you be if others knew you used it? ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍
Free at last! (in between) I have mixed feelings (in between) Now that you know, I must kill you.
44. Are you a registered medical marijuana patient? ❍ Yes, in Vermont. ❍ Yes, in another state. ❍ No
45. Should recreational pot be legal in Vermont? ❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Undecided
46. Have you ever used recreational pot where it is legal? (Check all that apply.) ❍ Yes, in Alaska. ❍ Yes, in Colorado. ❍ Yes, in Washington State. ❍ Yes, in Washington, D.C. ❍ Yes, outside the U.S. ❍ No
47. Have you ever used recreational pot that was purchased legally (outside Vermont)? ❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Unsure
48. Would you visit a location primarily because pot is legal there? ❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Unsure
49. Are you high right now? ❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ Unsure
50. What else should we have asked? _____________________________ _____________________________
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Meet seven Vermonters in diverse careers who are making history now
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n the early 1900s, women workers in the U.S. and Europe began organizing to demand better pay, access to education and voting rights. Their movement resulted in the creation of International Women’s Day, celebrated around the world on March 8. In 1987, the U.S. recognized the entire month of March as Women’s History Month. Over the years, as women’s working conditions have improved, the occasion has evolved into a celebration of women’s achievements. And there are lots of reasons to celebrate. These days, women run many Vermont businesses and institutions, including the Agency of Commerce & Community Development (Secretary Patricia Moulton Powden), the state’s largest utility, Green Mountain Power (President and CEO Mary Powell), and some of its leading statewide business organizations (Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce; Lisa Ventriss, president of the Vermont Business Roundtable; Andrea Cohen, executive director of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility; Ellen Kahler, executive director of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund). Women are also at the helm of some of the state’s largest media organizations: (Robin Turnau, president and CEO of Vermont Public Radio; Anne Galloway, editor and executive director of VTDigger.org; Pamela Polston and Paula Routly, cofounders and coeditors of Seven Days). Even more encouraging: A next generation is coming up behind them. Seven Days scoured the state for women 40 and younger who are emerging leaders in their fields. We sought a diverse sampling of individuals whose backgrounds and skills vary — from politicians to entrepreneurs to … a hotshot librarian. This week, we shine the spotlight on them. Of course, women’s work achieving equality isn’t done. There’s still a lively national debate about day care, family leave and equal pay. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of 2013, women accounted for more than half of workers in “management, professional and related occupations.” But their full-time salaries were, on average, just 82 percent of men’s. Correcting that imbalance will be up to women like these seven up-and-comers. Lean in and listen to what they have to say.
Jill Krowinski: At the Table Jill Krowinski never planned to run for political office. When she found her way into politics, her job was to get other people elected. But after a decade working behind the scenes, Krowinski is building her own political career — and a reputation as a bright, unflappable lawmaker. “She certainly has great potential,” said former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin. “She listens. She always follows through. She has a positive attitude.” Krowinski, 35, lives in Burlington’s Old North End with her husband, Tim Farbisz, and works as vice president of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Appointed in 2012 to replace Rachel Weston, she’s in her second full term in the Statehouse. Krowinski is clerk of the House Democratic caucus, a position that puts her in the thick of legislative decisions and could lead to higher office. The time Krowinski spent toiling for other politicians was akin to taking graduate-level courses in politics. As assistant to Democratic House speaker Gaye Symington in 2005, Krowinski had a close-up view of the biggest policy decisions of the day. Later, as manager of Symington’s unsuccessful campaign for governor, she got a dose of political reality. “You need time to build up what your message is, what your strategy is,” she said. “It just all moved so fast.” Now, as caucus clerk, Krowinski sees it from another angle. “I am learning so much about the dynamics that take place in committee rooms and
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Emily Piper: The Networker
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Not long ago, Emily Piper was catering weddings and selling vintage clothing at Second Time Around. These days, the 28-year-old is a driving force behind efforts to keep young people in Burlington and to nurture homegrown startups. Piper earned an art degree from Alfred University in New York, and she entered the job market just as the recession hit. She returned home to Waterbury Center, which, she recalled, “I saw as a little bit of a failure.”
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how they come out onto the floor. In the speaker’s office, I didn’t see that,” she said. Krowinski didn’t consider politics until after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. A friend urged her to apply to 21st Century Democrats, which trains eager young people in grassroots political organizing. Krowinski was sent to Springfield, Vt., to help Democratic legislative candidates. Her job was to make sure they knocked on as many doors as possible. “It’s all about meeting voters where they are,” she said. By the time she was done, Krowinski was hooked on politics, and Vermont.
After a few months, Piper moved to Burlington and took on multiple jobs to make rent. In 2009, a graphic design internship at the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce turned into a full-time gig. Six years later, she’s still there, but her career trajectory has been anything but flat. After about a year, the poised and rapid-talking Piper took over as director of Burlington Young Professionals, an affiliate of the Chamber. In that role, she puts on networking events, “celebrity CEO” talks and seminars for the Queen City’s young workforce. During the summer, she organizes golf tournaments, kickball games and outings that benefit local nonprofits. Participation in BYP has swelled in recent years. In early days, its
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She went on to work for more Democratic candidates: as field director for Peter Welch in his successful 2006 campaign for Congress, managing Symington’s 2008 run for governor, and as executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party. Krowinski still didn’t think of herself as a politician. “The statistic you hear is that a woman needs to be asked six or seven times to run for office. It was really that for me,” she said. “I really saw myself as in a role of supporting other people.” Enough people asked Krowinski to take Weston’s place that she listened. “I could hear Governor Kunin’s voice [saying], ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,’” she said. As for what’s on her political menu, she doesn’t have specific plans. “It is such an honor being able to serve in the House,” Krowinski said. “I just really enjoy the work.” Time may open more doors, Kunin said. “She may not know how talented she is right now, until the opportunity opens up and people encourage her.”
seminars attracted maybe 20 people; now they’re capped at 60. The organization boasts more than 500 members. Two years ago, Piper undertook another project with BYP staffer Nick Grimley that would come to be called LaunchVT. The business-pitch competition gives cash — $30,000 for the winner this year — and mentorship to aspiring entrepreneurs. It’s helped nurture several prospering startups, including internet marketing service Localvore Today, parents’ social media service Notabli and IrisVR, a software company that leverages virtual-reality technology. Sara Byers, CEO of Leonardo’s Pizza and a chamber board member, said, “It was unfathomable to me to see what Emily and Nick were able to create in a year.” Lee Bouyea, managing director for FreshTracks Capital, who also serves on the chamber’s board, is similarly effusive about Piper’s contribution to the local economy. He noted in an email, “These initiatives have been critical factors in broadening and strengthening the chamber’s reach into numerous new sectors, companies and key players in the Vermont economy.” Piper seems surprised by the success she’s had. About LaunchVT, she said, “We’ve been able to raise an unbelievable amount of funds.” Still, she’s not settling in. Piper wants to keep raising more capital and would like to be able to support six or more companies each year rather than one or two. Another goal: to become a more forceful advocate for young professionals on issues such as housing costs and student debt. Pointing out that she’s often the only young female sitting on economic development panels around the state, Piper said she wants to encourage her peers to speak out more. “I hope we can have a stronger voice and a credible one,” she said. “We’re not just young professionals that want to get a great microbrew.”
Women to Watch « p.33 When Becky Fu, 32, left her native China for Vermont, she figured she’d stay a year, tops. A recent graduate of a law school in Guangzhou, she enrolled in a one-year licensing program at Vermont Law School in 2011 to study for the bar in the United States. Her plan was to return to China and practice energy law. “The plan has changed,” admitted Fu with a smile. Four years later, she’s still in the Green Mountain State, and she left behind a legal career to assist Vermont companies in navigating the complicated world of foreign trade. Last year, Fu was promoted to manager of international trade at the Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development. While she’s reluctant to speculate too much about what the future will hold for her, she said she’s happy to call Vermont her home base in the United States. Last year, Vermont exported $3.6 billion worth of goods. Canada tops the list as the state’s No. 1 trade partner, followed by Hong Kong, China and Mexico. As part of her job, Fu helps Vermont companies attend international trade expos, and advises companies that are
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interested in but daunted by the process of exporting goods. Last week, for instance, she weighed in with advice for an ice cider company that wants to export to Japan and needs help jumping through the hoops. Fu also runs “export hack” trainings for Vermont businesses; so far, 14 have gone through the program, with another five slated for the spring.
“She really wants to do well by businesses,” said Lisa Gosselin, the outgoing commissioner at the Department of Economic Development. “She takes a great amount of pride in seeing a business succeed.” Fu is most proud of her work on a federal grant application, pulled together on short notice, that funneled $163,000 into Vermont to help educate businesses
about exporting and building the global market for their goods. Lawrence Miller, who headed up the ACCD prior to working on health care reform for Gov. Peter Shumlin, describes Fu as a creative thinker who is dedicated to her work — and “overall, just very effective.” Fu played a critical role as a translator on the trip that Miller and Shumlin made to Vietnam and China in 2013. Branching out into the international market is a challenge for Vermont companies, said Miller. “There’s a lot to learn about currency transactions, letters of credit, doing business in another culture. There’s a really big learning hurdle.” The state’s role, he said, is to facilitate that process and make it more manageable for fledgling exporters. That’s where Fu comes in. Fu now lives with her boyfriend in Stowe — where, after years of trying, she finally had a “breakthrough” in learning to cross-country ski. She grew up in Hunan province and then spent 10 years in Guangzhou — a city of 11 million that’s known as China’s “southern gate” for its proximity to the ocean. In other words, as she pointed out on a frigid afternoon in Montpelier, “It never snows.” Kat h ry n fl a gg
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Jennifer Barrett has wanted to be a prosecutor since she was a child growing up in Brattleboro. “I really liked arguing and I really liked proving my point and convincing others that my perspective was better,” she said. She didn’t have to wait as long as many in the legal field to achieve her dream. Last year, at age 28, Barrett won election as Orleans County state’s attorney. She is now responsible for two deputy prosecutors and all criminal cases in the Northeast Kingdom county of 27,000 people. Barrett studied computer and digital forensics at Champlain College, thinking the skills would come in handy in criminal investigations. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, she worked briefly as a clerk in the Orleans County State’s Attorney’s Office before landing a job as a deputy prosecutor in Bennington County. Last year, Barrett said, police officers in Orleans County encouraged her to come back and run against her old boss, Alan Franklin, for the top job. She did. And her campaign faced two immediate obstacles. Though she
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has family in the Northeast Kingdom, Barrett didn’t have deep roots in the region. And there was her age — most state’s attorneys are a decade or two older. “When I was knocking door to door, that was one of the first things people said: ‘Oh my gosh, you’re so young,’” Barrett said. “People would sort of
laugh. But I found that, once people took a moment to listen to me and what I wanted to do for the county, it was something I could overcome.” Barrett handily beat Franklin in the August Republican primary and two other challengers in the November general election to become the youngest state’s attorney in Vermont.
Since taking charge, Barrett has hired two deputy prosecutors and worked 12- to 15-hour days. A recent highlight was the day on which she and her deputies reached plea agreements with defense attorneys in 30 criminal cases, she said. Barrett has also been coordinating with police officers to improve the evidencegathering process in domestic violence cases, to help ensure more convictions. Among her supporters is Newport Police Chief Seth DiSanto, who endorsed Barrett in the race against Franklin. “I think she’s going to do a great job for the people of Orleans County,” DiSanto said. “I think she’s going to be an aggressive prosecutor. Age doesn’t mean anything. I look at the quality and talent of the asset in front of me, not age.” Now Barrett is putting down her own roots in the NEK: She and her fiancé, Vermont State Police trooper Lewis Hatch, are looking to buy a home in Orleans County. “I am excited to be here. No bigger goals as of now,” Barrett said, before hastening to add, “That doesn’t mean there won’t be.” mark d avis
Sara GranStrom: Wine advocate
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Winemakers love to say that wine is made in the vineyard, rather than in the winery. Few Vermonters understand what that means better than Lincoln Peak Vineyard’s Sara Granstrom, whose family transitioned from growing strawberries to wine grapes in the early 2000s. As a teenager and Middlebury College student, she worked alongside her father, Chris Granstrom, during her summer breaks, expanding the vineyard from a shoebox of obscure hybrid cuttings to 12 robust, rolling acres. Vermont’s early vineyards took root less than two decades ago, which makes
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Sara Granstrom one of very few secondgeneration winemakers in an industry that is still finding its footing. Warmer months find Granstrom, who assists her father in the winery as well as the field, in the Lincoln Peak tasting room, welcoming visitors with a ready smile and a glass of wine. This varies in color from crystalline straw to pink to deep, heady purples. As at any winery, the tastings are paired with a side of tutelage — on the varietals, vineyard ecology and winery practices — and the 29-year-old delivers these lessons with an ebullient combination of fluency and poise. She’s an apt advocate for the fledgling industry, which creates obscure
wines with hybrid grapes unknown even to devoted oenophiles. In 2013, Granstrom was elected president of the Vermont Grape & Wine Council, where she helped refocus the volunteer-run organization around its core mission to educate local winemakers and consumers on cold-climate winemaking. She also forged meaningful connections with state government and engaged the local agriculture, food and beverage, brewing and distilling communities. “[Sara] has taken the council so far in the last year,” says Shelburne Vineyard co-owner Gail Albert, who was the council’s first president and another Vermont wine early adopter. “She’s done a tremendous job in terms of marketing and organizing.” Albert calls Granstrom’s leadership “a real boon for the group.” Her marketing savvy launched the annual Valentine’s Day Wine & Chocolate Weekend. Along with Artesano meadery co-owner Nichole Wolfgang, Granstrom also revamped the Vermont Winery Passport. Under her direction, 17,000 of the pocket-size booklets (which double as guides to 20 local wineries and ice cideries) found their way into thirsty travelers’ hands. And last fall, Granstrom established the Middlebury Tasting Trail, which winds through five local tipplers including Drop-In and Otter Creek breweries, Woodchuck Hard Cider and Appalachian Gap Distillery. Why? “One of my main goals is to make Middlebury a destination for people who are interested in craftproduced products,” she says. For smaller producers such as Appalachian, the promotion represents a significant portion of their traffic, which she views as good news for everybody. “We’re not competing,” Granstrom says of the Vermont wine industry — and the agriculture, food and beverage communities at large. “We’re just trying to improve the industry. We’re still growing the pie.”
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Women to Watch « p.35 Amber Billey is not your grandmother’s librarian. Sure, the catalog and metadata librarian at the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library delights in old and rare books. But in an age when card catalogs are truly dead, Billey, 32, is just as comfortable talking about net neutrality and digital initiatives as she is poring over dusty manuscripts. Vermont state librarian Marty Reid described Billey as smart, passionate and tech savvy. “We need people who understand not just how to use technology but really think about how technology drives dynamic change in libraries,” said Reid. “We need many Ambers.” Billey grew up outside of Pittsburgh, then headed to art school in Chicago. She eased into a career in library sciences through a gig at that city’s Field Museum. There, Billey realized that the same skills she’d relied upon as a sculptor — accuracy, planning and systematic thinking — parlayed neatly into the behind-the-scenes work of catalog librarians. “I knew that I wanted to focus on cataloguing and information organization,” said Billey, who studied library sciences in New York. In the internet age, she’s especially interested in how libraries can expose the wealth of data they house to the “live open web.” Billey’s work at UVM is varied, but some of her favorite projects include digitizing Vermont’s cultural heritage in order to make items like old books or maps available online. She’s also working on ways to better preserve and share the scholarship of UVM professors and students. Billey is interested in the
intersection between queer studies and library sciences, and is cowriting a book called The Queer Joy of Cataloguing. In 2014, Billey served as president of the Vermont Library Association, where she oversaw some major updates, including a website and logo redesign. But Billey’s influence extends well beyond Vermont. She and her wife, Lydia Willoughby, started throwing a “Que(e)ry” party while living in Brooklyn to benefit libraries dealing in queer studies or archives; they’ve continued to host similar parties at national library conventions. Willoughby, a reference librarian at SUNY Plattsburgh, and Billey live in Winooski with their two dogs. They perform in drag and burlesque circles. When they didn’t find many such performances upon moving to Vermont three years ago, they organized their own. Their creation, the Peep Show, happens “monthly-ish” in Winooski and Burlington, and so far has raised more than $5,000 for the Pride Center of Vermont. Billey appears as the drag king Quechee George at the events. She’s been performing drag since her teenage years, when she first began to grapple with questions of gender and identity. Drag performers, she said, helped her realize “you can be masculine and be a woman.” Sitting in a coffee shop at the UVM Davis Center, wearing hip glasses and a bespoke jacket, Billey said she’s grateful that, personally and professionally, “I’m just able to be myself. I feel really comfortable expressing myself just as I am.” K at h ry n f l a g g
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Emily Blistein: An Artful Vision While browsing in a store, many people impulsively buy a new piece of clothing or an eye-catching accessory. Shopping in downtown Middlebury five years ago, Emily Blistein decided she wanted to buy the store. A successful attorney and lobbyist who had worked for Vermont Legal Aid and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Blistein had been an outlier in a family of artists and designers. But that day, the Brattleboro native felt the pull of her creative roots. “Something started calling for me to do something else,” recalled Blistein, 36. “I had absolutely zero experience in retail, but I had a strong background in design, and a love of small vendors and people who make things.” When that store, the Gilded Cage, closed shortly after Blistein’s visit, she left behind her old life and took over the space in 2010. Her boutique, Clementine, has quickly become an anchor in downtown Middlebury. Business was so brisk that Blistein had to move to a space next door that offered twice the square footage. Clementine also has a robust online presence. The boutique sells a constantly changing array of items, including handbags, notebooks, jewelry and towels, all made by local artists and designers. Increasingly, Blistein said, her role has evolved from storeowner to counselor for artists and craftspeople looking to turn their hobby into a career. It has
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by each other’s houses anymore. But people stop by [here] all the time.” Karen Duguay, marketing director of the Better Middlebury Partnership, said Clementine’s successful online presence has helped Blistein cope with the traditional slow period that many Vermont retailers experience in the winter. “Emily really tapped into something in her approach,” Duguay said. “She is very successful in a bricks-and-mortar store and having an online presence that does really well. She’s an asset to Middlebury that way. “We’ve heard of people being introduced to her products and her store online and then coming to Middlebury to visit [Clementine],” added Duguay. “That helps the town.” Within weeks of launching Clementine, Blistein learned that she was pregnant. Her son, Julian, spent his early months as a “store baby,” she said. She also has two young stepsons; free time is scarce. But that hasn’t stopped her from starting another new business. With photographer friend Jessica Sipe, Blistein recently launched You’re So Golden, which offers creative, personalized photo shoots for businesses looking to expand their social media and web presence. “Emily’s got an amazing amount of energy and talent,” Sipe said. “She’s got a great eye and aesthetic. She has a vision.” mark d avis
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s the deputy prime minister delivered an impassioned oration, her colleagues found time to punctuate their furious note taking with periodic outbursts of “Hear, hear!” and to rap knuckles on their desks in a show of support. Across the room, members of the opposition, who took notes with even greater fervor (and in multicolored inks), occasionally jumped out of their chairs with arms outstretched in gestures of objection to which speakers could respond at their discretion. This tense but respectful dispute — about the appropriateness of strategies for correcting social misbehavior — took place in an almost featureless classroom at the University of Vermont. Arguments pro and con zipped around the room, delivered with gusto by students at Harvard and McGill universities who appeared for all the world to be experts on the subject. Impassioned though they were, the speakers had been assigned their topic and positions only 15 minutes before opening arguments commenced. That sounds like a challenge for even the most informed speaker, but it’s standard operating procedure in tournaments that, like this one, abide by the rules of British Parliamentary debate. The only unusual feature of this tournament was that all of its participants were women. The 2015 North American Women’s Debate Championships, which took place at UVM last weekend, are in some ways a natural continuation of the school’s historically robust debate program. But the competition also represents an attempt to break up a misogynistic attitude that, many participants said, has tainted college debating for too long. If the intelligence and ardor with which these young women spoke are any indication, the university debate establishment is in for an upheaval.
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an endowed professorship of forensics. Since 1982, a single prof has held that position: Alfred Snider, better known by his nickname, “Tuna” or “Dr. Tuna.” He’s had plenty of time to amass an army of ardent admirers. As integral as Snider has been to UVM’s debate program — and to its affiliates, the Lawrence Debate Union and the World Debate Institute — he participated in the recent Women’s Debate Championships mostly in an unofficial advisory capacity. Two reasons: He was out of the country at the time, and he’s not a woman. Sharmila Parmanand, whom Snider has called “perhaps the most celebrated debate trainer in the world,” took the lead in preparing the debaters for the women’s championships. She’s been coaching UVM debaters for the past year and earned her own nickname: Her students, who wear their fondness for her on their sleeves, call her “Sharms.” A former competitive debater herself, Parmanand, 28, is the policy director for
the Visayan Forum, a Manila-based nongovernmental organization dedicated to the eradication of modern-day slavery. She knows Snider from the international debate circuit. Such is his reputation that, when he told Parmanand he’d like her to coach his team, she seized the opportunity, even though it meant holding down jobs in two hemispheres. Parmanand explained the necessity for an all-female debate tournament in simple terms. “Women are disproportionately underrepresented in terms of debate performance and achievement,” she said, citing, among other statistics, the absence of a single female speaker in the top 10 finishers at last year’s university championships. “I have no scientific basis for why this is the case,” Parmanand continued, “but it would suggest there are cultural norms that discourage women from debating. It’s seen as a very aggressive, intimidating activity.” For this reason, she said, the women’s debate circuit was created with several
goals in mind. One is to provide a safe, friendly atmosphere in which women may develop their debate skills; another is to allow young female debaters to meet and learn from those with more experience. But the most important objective is changing the androcentric culture of the debate community as a whole. By providing a forum in which women debaters can excel, the tournament prepares them, Parmanand said, for greater success in all-gender debates. The aim is nothing less than changing the system from within. Approximately 125 debaters traveled to Burlington from more than a dozen colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada for this, the second such tournament ever, and the first held in the U.S. The participation was nearly twice that of last year’s tournament at Montréal’s McGill. Still, Parmanand explained, the North American college debate circuit lags behind other regions with regard to gender equity; women’s tournaments
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have stronger footholds in the UK and younger female debaters.” Even though she conceded that things are slowly Australia. The tournament’s women-only improving, Golden was not the only parpolicy applies primarily to the debaters, ticipant to refer to mainstream debate as as evidenced by the handful of men in a “boys’ club.” Nicolas Cathcart, a junior at Brown attendance. Some of the event’s judges are male students and professors, but University, was a judge at the tournament. men may not serve as chairs of the “This tournament is very useful in breakjudging panels, nor may they judge ing down the stereotypes … that men have the playoff rounds, called “breaks” in about women,” he said. “A lot of people debate parlance. (Incidentally, judges define certain topics, like economics, as at these tournaments are also com- ‘men-dominated’ topics, whereas somepetitors, in that they are competitively thing like social justice might be seen as a ‘women-dominated’ topic. ranked for their skills in But at this tournament, we adjudication.) see women doing well in a Students from UVM wide variety of topics, and `fielded a team on their we can take this back and home turf, while other see that there are no topics Catamounts assumed the that are specifically made tournament’s administrafor women or for men.” tive roles. Senior Mariel Cathcart’s colleague, Golden is a skilled deTezzy Nhlengethwa, a bater who has traveled to native of Swaziland and Malaysia, Hungary, India a sophomore at Brown, and other places to parwas in Burlington to ticipate in tournaments. participate in her first For this one, she served women-only debate. She as “head convener,” overwas impressed by the seeing the tournament’s spirit of camaraderie at complex logistics rather the tournament. “We are than participating in deShArmIl A all more supportive, and bates herself. PArmANAND we all talk to each other a Golden, who grew up lot more [than do particiin Warren, majors in political science — only because, one gets pants in standard debates],” she said. “I the sense, UVM does not offer “debate” think people build each other up after as a major. She said her experience in the debates, giving each other feedback debate has taught her organizational even though they were on opposite skills, creativity, argumentation and teams.” Just before the tournament’s final strategy, while giving her tools for the critical analysis of texts — skills that round, debaters gathered to hear an would benefit any college student. But address by someone who knows a great women are disproportionately under- deal about the challenges women face exposed to this particular method of in the public sphere: former Vermont developing those skills, Golden said, in governor Madeleine May Kunin. The large part because they are often not timing of her talk couldn’t have been more appropriate: It took place on taken seriously in the debate world. “People really do not treat female International Women’s Day. m speakers the way they should,” Golden said. “There are retention problems, Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com and a lot of clubs aren’t run by professional coaches. [Some schools have] had INFo a really serious problem with older male Learn more about UVM Debate at debaters having ‘a relationship with’ debate.uvm.edu.
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workers might like to forget to return to a dreaded but familiar routine. The Thugs is the stronger of the two pieces in this production, and it is also the play for which Bock won an Obie — or Off-Broadway Theater — Award. The Receptionist is a tricky work, dependent on a strong titular lead actor to carry the show with charisma. Her challenge is taking the audience through the kind of quotidian gossip that can seem meandering unless in expert hands. On Saturday, The Receptionist got off to a rocky start. Audience members entered just as the play began, interrupting the enigmatic opening monologue by Larry Connelly, as businessman Mr. Raymond. Still, his ominous final words — “Everything is eating something” — effectively foreshadowed the darkness to come. Cue Mary Scripps as Beverly, the receptionist, the heart and moral center of the play. Her costuming by Nica Allen is perfection, from bouffant hair twist to red peplum jacket to black kitten heels. Instantly recognizable, Scripps’ Beverly is like a caramel, soft and a little too
sweet. She gives a friend advice over the phone, sounding passively indignant over her poor dating choices, all the while fielding calls for the vaguely named “Northeast Office.” Beverly also counsels love-scorned coworker Lorraine (Emer Feeney) and guards the gates to her employer’s inner offices. The pace of the play’s first act was a bit slow. Its best action follows the arrival of the suave Mr. Dart (Adam Cunningham), who says he’s from Central Office and wants to see the absent Mr. Raymond. The stage comes alive with absurdity and tension as Beverly is forced to exercise control over her territory. Lorraine embarks on a flirtation with Dart, which in Feeney’s capable hands read as desperate as it was strange. This aging Lothario is a married man and palpably creepy. His attention seems more lion-sizing-up-gazelle than lovebird. There’s a subtext of tension: Is Mr. Dart really from Central Office? And what does he want from Mr. Raymond? Set designer Peter Holm cleverly used acoustic tile to create the backdrop, which appropriately resembles a generic
office. The set is complete, from restroom signs and elevator to the tiny detail of a backscratcher in the pen cup. Colors are muted gray and off-white, with the exception of the warm-toned reception desk, the focal point of the stage. Act two takes a disquieting turn, like an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” as we learn just what Mr. Raymond does at the Northeast Office. Bock employs a coded conversation between Mr. Raymond and Lorraine to convey the inescapable implications. Beverly tries not to overhear, hoping her busy work will grant her the emotional distance she needs to maintain necessary denial. The final moment of the play, which we won’t reveal here, returns full circle to the opening monologue. Puzzling at the beginning — in contrast to the happy little bubble the receptionist inhabits — Mr. Raymond’s dark words now make perfect sense. In The Receptionist, there are consequences for even a little complicity with an evil and seemingly omnipresent authority.
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emember the Asian fusion of the ’80s and ’90s? Of course you do. The often-wonky attempts at combining flavors live on in your Thai chicken pizza and Chinese chicken salad topped with fried noodles. Burlington’s new restaurant Butch + Babe’s opened with the concept of fusing owner Kortnee Bush’s Chicago roots with those of Thai-born chef Narin Phanthakhot. But there’s not a satayflavored thing to be found here. That’s a testament to Phanthakhot’s ingenuity in the kitchen — he’s a New England Culinary Institute grad and Worthy Kitchen alum. But it also reflects the priorities Bush has set for her restaurant, which opened in the Old North End in January. Asian fusion isn’t the goal; being a “neighborhood pub” is. It just so happens that the pub’s chef produces some of the biggest flavors in greater Burlington. Bush is best known locally for her work with the Burlington School Food Project and the Association of Africans Living in Vermont — which, on paper, doesn’t give her much in common with a fine-dining chef like Phanthakhot. But the unlikely pair turns out to make perfect sense. The friends met while Phanthakhot was cooking at Barnard’s luxe Twin Farms and Bush managed its dining room — an aesthetic world away from their current eccentric, 45-seat restaurant. The centerpiece at Butch + Babe’s is local artist DJ Barry’s portrait of Peewee Herman introducing viewers to his old pal Mr. Breakfast, who has pancakes topped with eggs for eyes, a bacon mouth and a strawberry nose. Other walls are decorated with needlepoint projects by Phanthakhot’s mother, Jintana. A photo of Bush’s grandparents, Rich “Butch” and Marlene “Babe” Lelko, occupies a place of honor, too. The bright colors and sense of family ties help to soften the gray, industrial-looking room in the
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The Vermont beer trail will gain an important new stop when the Alchemist Brewery makes its upcoming move to Stowe. But that brewery and tasting room won’t be the only new kid on the beer block. This coming summer, Eric WArNStEDt and WilliAm mcNEil of Hen of the Wood plan to open a still-unnamed beer bar at 294 Mountain Road, most recently home to Vermont Ale House. Warnstedt warns potential guests not to expect a third Hen of the Wood. “It’s just a beer bar,” he says. The building will retain its three levels but otherwise be restored to suit the owners’ original lounge design by DouG WAlkEr, the man behind the reconstruction of WAtErWorkS fooD + DriNk. Custom-made high-tops and a few booths will fill out the “vibey lounge,” Warnstedt says. The chef, who is a semifinalist for a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Northeast again this year, says he’s spent a great deal of time in the Stowe community. “I am still concerned about not stepping on anyone’s toes,” he adds, and cites businesses such as piEcASSo pizzEriA & louNGE and the BENch as already doing an excellent job of serving beer in Stowe. “But I believe a rising tide lifts all ships,” Warnstedt says. “We want to be unique and not impede on those restaurants.” The team will serve its favorite beers from near and far, along with bar snacks familiar to Hen of the Wood regulars, such as oysters, cheese and charcuterie. The compact kitchen will also turn out small plates, such as braised lAplAttE riVEr ANGuS fArm short ribs served in steamed buns. “It will still be filling and still be different,” Warnstedt says. For those with a sweet tooth, pastry chef ANDrEW lEStourGEoN’s ice creams will be transformed into milk shakes in a newly purchased machine. Some diners will burn off those calories by biking. The Stowe Recreation Path runs nearby, and Warnstedt plans to court the cycling crowd with an area for bike tune-ups out front.
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In 2011, the Alchemist Pub and Brewery closed its waterlogged doors after a brutal bashing from Tropical Storm Irene. That left Waterbury without a proper brewpub, but, soon after, the owners of the rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAp room, mArk friEr and chAD frY, purchased a one-barrel brewing system from 14th StAr BrEWiNG when that brewery upsized. The idea was to start serving housemade beer ASAP — Frier has been an avid homebrewer for years — but the project kept getting pushed to the back burner. In 2013, prohiBitioN piG started making its own beer in the old Alchemist space. Then Frier and Fry turned their focus to Stowe, where they opened the BENch last October. Recently, however, Frier returned to brewing and moved the system from his own kitchen into the Waterbury restaurant. With a hoppy pale ale fermenting now, he hopes to debut his house suds in the next couple of weeks. “Our goal is to do small batches and do them really well,” Frier says, “and then expand from there.” As spring approaches, he plans to flesh out a series
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we opened, it really solidified the reason why we were there,” Rovetto says, “which is to add to the vibe and push the community forward as a whole. We’re hoping people will look to us and say, ‘Wow, it’s really coming alive here.’” The restaurant is now open daily for lunch and dinner, with delivery starting this week.
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juicy pork meatballs, presented beside a cilantro-peaked mountain of jasmine rice. Not everything is Asian at Butch + Babe’s, which pays special attention to the needs of vegan and gluten-free diners. The former get a treat in the form of “I can’t believe it’s not carbonara.” One of the larger dishes among the restaurant’s generally smaller-sized entrées, the vegan pasta dish begins with uncommonly toothsome angel hair. Then Phanthakhot uses silky tofu to replicate the egg and cheese that make up a typical carbonara sauce. For meat eaters, the creamy texture is almost there, but the bean-curd taste
a hint of alcoholic burn or hoppy bitterness. The same night, a hot, freshly baked brownie was left slightly raw in the center, allowing chocolate to ooze and meld with the salty peanut-butter sauce on top. I sat closer to the door on my second visit and noticed a trend: Nearly every entering group of diners identified themselves to Bush, with excitement, as returning guests. Perhaps that speaks to Babe’s success at filling the “neighborhood pub” niche, even though its quirky food is a far cry from hot wings and nachos. Or perhaps its food is just plain good enough to attract diners from farther afield.
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AIRPORT SELF STORAGE AUCTION The personal properties (household goods and electronics) of Felecia Lambert, Scot Jeremy, Faith Elliot and Richard Worcester located in storage units E& D-16, A-16, C-10 and C-13 respectively of Airport Self Storage located on 1900
Williston Road in South Burlington, Vermont, will be up for Auction on March 24, 2015 at 12:00 noon. This announcement constitutes the enforcement of the Owner’s lien on the personal property located in Units E-16, D-16, A-16, C-10 and C-13 at Airport Self Storage, 1900 Williston Road, So. Burlington according to Vermont Law Title 9, V.S.A Chapter 98. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 224-2-14 CNCV Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff v. Elizabeth Michelle Kaplan aka Elizabeth M. Kaplan aka Elizabeth Kaplan, Forest Park Condominium Association, Midland Funding, LLC and Occupants residing at 8 Timber Lane, Unit 25, Forest Park, South Burlington, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Elizabeth Michelle Kaplan aka Elizabeth M. Kaplan
aka Elizabeth Kaplan to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank dated January 26, 2007 and recorded in Volume 773, Page 370, which mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank to GMAC Mortgage, LLC by an instrument dated October 16, 2007 and recorded on October 24, 2007 in Volume 798, Page 699 of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington, which mortgage was assigned from GMAC Mortgage, LLC to Green Tree Servicing LLC by an instrument dated August 14, 2013 and recorded on August 30, 2013 in Volume 1182, Page 257 of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:30 A.M. on March 31, 2015, at 8 Timber Lane, Unit 25, Forest Park, South Burlington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:
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To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Elizabeth M. Kaplan by Warranty Deed of Bradley Hold and Patricia Dumont dated January 26, 2006, of record in Volume 773, at Page 368 of the Town of South Burlington Land Records and being more particularly described as follows: “Apartment No. 35 in the Forest Park town house Condominium, on Timber Lane South Burlington, Vermont as numbered and further described and depicted in the Declaration of Condominium dated May 24, 1972, recorded in Volume 101, Page 413 of said Land Records, together with an undivided 2.58 percent interest in the Common Areas and Facilities as described in said Declaration. “Also included as a restricted common area is the designated carport and patio as shown on floor plans recorded in Volume 107, Page 6-61 of said Land Records. “The address of the condominium is 35 Forest Park, South Burlington, Vermont 05403.”
Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the records thereof and the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the City of South Burlington. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe, Fortin & Rees, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 24th day of February, 2015. Green Tree Servicing LLC
Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 420-4-14 CNCV Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff v. Enrique Lutgen aka Enrique A. Lutgen, Neda Lutgen and Occupants residing at 23 Essex Highlands, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Enrique Lutgen aka Enrique A. Lutgen and Neda Lutgen to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. dated August 25, 2005 and recorded in Volume 662, Page 684, which mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc.
to Green Tree Servicing LLC by an instrument dated August 14, 2013 and recorded on August 26, 2013 in Volume 905, Page 413 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:30 A.M. on March 31, 2015, at 23 Essex Highlands, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Enrique Lutgen and Neda Lutgen by Warranty Deed of James L. Jarvis and Marguerite L, Jarvis dated June 12, 2003, and recorded in Volume 556, Page 257 of the Town of Essex Land Records. Being a lot of land with dwelling house and other improvements therein situated on Highland Road so-called, and being all of lot No. 6 as shown on a plan entitled “Essex Highlands, Weed Road, Ralph Evers, Developer, dated August 7, 1967” and recorded
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in Volume 1, Page 4 of the Town of Essex Land Records. Said land and premises have a curve frontage on Highland Road of 363.33 feet, more or less, a northerly sideline of 180.60 feet, more or less, a southerly sideline of 585.20 feet, more or less, and a westerly sideline of 62.49 feet, more or less. Subject to and benefitted by all rights of ways, easements, covenants and permits of record. Reference is hereby made to the above mentioned instruments, the records thereof and the references therein contained in further aid of this description. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage,
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NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Jesse Terry, putative father of M.T. The State of Vermont has filed a petition to terminate your residual parental rights to M.T. You are hereby notified that a hearing to consider the termination of all residual parental rights to M.T. will be held on April 9, 2015 at 1:00 o’clock, at the Superior Court of Vermont, Rutland Family Division, 9 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing will result in the termination of any rights you may have to M.T. The State is represented by the Attorney General’s Office, 103 South Main Street, Waterbury, Vermont 05602-0602. Other parties include M.T.
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BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 1-800-639-1522. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets 1st & 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance,” 1:302:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the 1st Mon. of ea. mo. at Vermont Protection & Advocacy, 141 Main St., suite 7, in conference room #2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. St. Albans support group meets the 2nd Tues. of the month at the St. Albans Diner, 14 Swanton Road from 4-5:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. of the month at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. of ea. mo. at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Middlebury support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center from 6-8 p.m. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.
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BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Monday night, 6-8 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.
CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP 2nd & 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, St. Albans. The Caregivers Support Group welcomes anyone who is helping care for a family member of a loved one with a chronic or life-limiting illness. 527-6717.
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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston. This support group meets to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Emphasis will be on shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in the care for a person living with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends are welcome to attend. For questions or additional support group listings call 1-800-272-3900.
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DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205. DYSTONIA SUPPORT GROUP Discussion of Dystonia Symptoms and Side Effects, Speakers, Advice on Exercise, Support of Others. Second Wednesday of every other month (Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct., Dec.) at 6pm at the Fanny Allen Hospital, Boardroom, Ground Floor. Contact Barbara Morrish, 985-8467/338-7710 or barbaramorrish@ myfairpoint.net for more information. EMOTIONAL SUPPORT 51 yrs. old male grieving loss of partner. Seeking women 30-60 yrs. old to talk to and share our emotional pain. Let’s help each other heal and perhaps become friends. Heartbroken? Lonely? Call day or night, 377-9590, Stan. You will reach a kind voice to speak to and our discussions will be confidential. EMPLOYMENT SEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Feeling lost with your job hunt? Want some tips on making the process easier? Learn employment basics, find out about resources,
get tips on overcoming barriers, discover new job openings, hear from guest speakers, network with community partners, share and listen. Fridays, 1-2 p.m. at The Wellness Co-op, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 492-8218, ext. 300. Thewellnesscoop.org. Please email abby@ pathwaysvermont.org if you can attend. FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 and over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based, but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills and draw strength from one another. 1st & 3rd Wed. of each month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St. Burlington. (across from parking garage, above bookstore). Thdaub1@ gmail.com. G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer led support group. Every second Monday, 7 p.m. 59 Catherine St., Burlington. RSVP graspvt@gmail.com or call 363-1369.
G.Y.S.T. (GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER) GYST creates a safe and empowering community for young men and youth in transition to come together with one commonality: learning to live life on life’s terms. G.Y.S.T. is held every Tue., 4 p.m. at the North Central Vermont Recovery Center, 275 Brooklyn St., Morrisville. For more information call Terry Kelleher at 851-8825.
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GATHERINGS AT THE WELLNESS CO-OP The Wellness Co-op is building community at 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Current offerings include Community Meeting, 4:30 p.m. every other Tue.; Community GRIEF AND RECOVERY Potluck Dinner, 5 SUPPORT GROUP p.m. every other Tue.; 1st & 3rd Wed. of Hearing Voices Support every month, 7-8 p.m., Circle, 3 p.m., Wed.; Franklin County Home Advocacy Group, 4 p.m., Health Agency (FCHHA), Wed.; Peer Support 3 Home Health Circle, Circle, 5 p.m., Wed.; St. Albans. 527-6717. 30-Minute Mindfulness Meditation, 6:15 HEARTBEAT VERMONT p.m., Wed.; A free support group 1-Hour Mindfulness for those who have Meditation, 11 a.m., lost a friend, colleague Calcoku Thu.; Using Social Challenges or loved one bygrid the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the Support 12 p.m., usingGroup, the numbers 1 - 6 onlysuicide. Meetings, once in each row and Thu.; column. Writers Circle, 5:30 facilitated by our clinip.m., Th 4+u.; Laughter 260x Gilmore, ÷ cian, 2Jonathan Yoga Class (please Sudoku are held at Maple Leaf bring water), 12 p.m., Fri. puzzle Complete byNorth usingMain the Clinic, 167 10+ the following 7+ Open Monday-Friday All are welcome numbers 1-9 only once inSt.each row, column 11 a.m.-7 and to attend. Snacks & and 3 x 3p.m. Free box. 20x 12÷ 5+ open to the public! 279 drinks are provided to N. Winooski Ave., make for a comfortable Burlington. Is there atmosphere. 3÷Some something you’d like to who attend have host? We are actively experienced a recent 72xvolunteers!! 30x seeking loss, & some are still 888-492-8218
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struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Some people come to just 1 meeting, some return every mo. The choice is up to the participant & is as individual as the grieving process itself. Please call 446-3577 for info when the group will be meeting next. HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support. IF YOU ARE A YOUTH OR YOUNG ADULT AND LOOKING FOR A LISTENING EAR, spiritual encouragement, a companion on the journey First United Methodist Church invites you to contact Rachel, our Pastor at Large for youth & young adults in the Greater Burlington area. Rachel can be reached via email at RachelStampul@gmail. com and has open office hours for folks to just drop in on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:30 in the Burlington Town Center Mall food court. IN-PERSON QUITTING CLASSES Weekly on Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., UHC Given WEST Clinic, South Prospect St., Burlington. Call to register, 847-2278. This is a great way to connect with others who are also trying to quit with help from experienced counselors, as well. Free 4-week group sessions, free patches, gum or lozenges, service is provided by a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. INTERSEX AND TRANSGENDER SUPPORT GROUP 1st Tuesday of each month 5:30 p.m. This peer led group will meet at RU12? the 1st Tuesday of each month 5:30 p.m. at RU12?. This group is open to all intersex and trans people and to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful and confidential space for socializing, support, and discussion. Contact RU12? at 860-7812 for more information. KINDESS UNDERSTANDING ADOPTION CIRCLE (KUAC) 2nd Wednesday of each month 6:00 pm. KUAC is a peer support group where LGBTQ-identified or Allied adult members of the adoption triad (adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive
parents) can come together to share stories, give and receive support, and talk about feelings/thoughts related to the adoption experience in an understanding, confidential community-minded environment. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month from 6:00 pm. For more information, please contact RU12? at 802.860.7812 or email thecenter@ru12. org. RU12? also offers social events. Our weekly e-newsletter, What’s Up, offers information on events happening around the state. Log onto our website at: ru12. org or call 860-7812 for more information on upcoming events. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact Sherry. Rhynard@gmail.com. KNITTING AND CROCHETING GROUP Noon on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. People of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, and skill levels to come together in a queer space to knit, crochet, and enjoy each others’ company. For more information, call 860RU12 (7812) or email TheCenter@RU12.org. LGBTQ GRIEF AND LOSS GROUP This is a social support group for those interested in giving voice to their experience(s) with loss and in listening to others. We welcome those experiencing loss of all kinds, including death of a loved one, loss of or change in health, familial and other beloved relationships, and more. Topics could include but are not limited to: grieving, letting go, resolution, moving on, self-image,
rituals and learning. Please send any questions about this group to thecenter@ru12.org or call the Center at 860-7812 LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional and/or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings and experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call Brenda at SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN? Want more support? Join us to focus on the tools necessary for day-to-day living through open dialogue, knowledge & personal experience. Lets find a healthy balance along w/ an improved quality of life. Weekly meeting on Tuesdays, Camel’s Hump Room, Burlington Community Health Center. Call for details. Martha, 415-250-5181. LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Third Sat. of each month, 9:30 a.m. Brownell Library in the Kolvoord Room, Essex Jct. Facilitator: Amy Plog. Fine out more by emailing vtlupusgroup@yahoo.com. MAGIC: MASCULINITY AND GENDER IDENTITY CONVERSATION A space for people to engage in a discussion around topics of interest regarding masculinity and gender identity. Voice thoughts, feelings, and opinions about societal norms and expectations. Open for anyone who would like to engage in supportive discussion group. Weekly on Thursdays, 2-3 p.m. The Wellness Co-op, 247 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT. Info: Kristen Kaigle, 370-5369, kristenk@ pathwaysvermont.org.
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Development Lead Evolution HCM Technology is innovating the way organizations manage their most important asset — their people. By combining revolutionary SaaS technology and expert services, Evolution HCM Technology delivers an all-inclusive, scalable and high value Human Capital Management software that gives our customers a substantial business advantage. We are one of the fastest-growing technology companies in our home state of Vermont and are proud to employ a team of dynamic innovators from around the globe. We are currently hiring a Development Lead to join us as a critical member of the engineering team. The Development Lead will be a part of an agile development team, architecting, designing, developing, optimizing and testing client/server and web applications in an Agile setting based on both open source and .NET technologies. The Development Lead will provide technical and development leadership through coaching and mentorship. The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field, fiveplus years of new product development experience, strong interpersonal skills, the ability to produce high quality code in a fastpaced environment, and experience rewriting legacy applications. To view the complete job description and to apply online, please visit evolutionhcm.com
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We are seeking a highly skilled, innovative and passionate licensed Elementary Principal to provide vision, leadership and instructional expertise to Rick Marcotte Central School. This person will share our goal to inspire all learners to believe they will make a difference in the world. Candidates are encouraged to apply online through schoolspring.com, or directly at the school district until the end of business on Friday, March 20, 2015. A cover letter, resume, three letters of reference, copy of license and transcripts are required. Qualified candidates to be interviewed will be selected from an evaluation of the completed application and articulate in the following areas: Cover letter containing a specific interest in the school and demonstration of written communication skills Philosophy of education (You may submit a link to your blog or personal web page containing the philosophy statement.) Instructional leadership experience Relationships with staff, students and parents Elementary teaching experience Multicultural and diversity competence Social-emotional learning Specialty training in core academic areas Knowledge of current best practices with Common Core
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Are you seeking a position in which you can use your creativity and gain experience working with seniors that have memory care needs? Are you bright and cheery and able to engage small and larger groups of people while bringing them life enrichment? The Arbors at Shelburne has immediate part-time openings with an every other weekend commitment in our Activities Department. Please submit a cover letter and resume via e-mail to:
tseeley@ benchmarkquality.com Tanya Seeley, Program Director The Arbors at Shelburne 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 985-8600 EOE.
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The Chemistry Department of SUNY College at Plattsburgh seeks qualified individuals for instruction for class and/or laboratories in general chemistry and organic chemistry. Qualified applicants may be retained for consideration for future vacancies. For more details and to apply, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select the “Part-Time Faculty Positions” Job Category. SUNY College at Plattsburgh is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. 3h-PlattsburghState031115.indd.indd 1
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Enrollment Manager, Operations Champlain College’s Manager for Enrollment Operations holds broad responsibility for all of the prospect and application processes in undergraduate admissions. In addition to managing and leading five staff members, the Manager coordinates the decision notification timing and maintenance of all incoming freshman and transfer applications for admission. The manager is responsible for the data transfer of admissions information from vendor sources and integration into the college’s information systems; is responsible for outgoing communications to inquiries and applicants; ensures that data collection on inquiries, applicants, visitors and event registrants is accurate and supports reporting goals; and is responsible in general for leading the operations engine of undergraduate admissions. The manager will also serve in an important role during the institution’s implementation of Salesforce for the UG Admissions operations.
Area Coordinator, Student Life Area Coordinators are live-in college professionals whose primary responsibilities are to facilitate campus programming, create community in the residence halls and retain students at Champlain College. Area Coordinators do this by creating an environment where students will be safe, crafting opportunities for students to connect and engage in the Champlain College community, and supporting students in their efforts to be successful. In addition, Area Coordinators manage the day-to-day operation of residential areas, supervise a staff of resident assistants, supervise and advise a variety of student groups, create and implement campus activities, and ensure the delivery of quality educational and social programming. Area Coordinators also have a focused area of specialty which could include diversity, social, athletic or leadership programming as well as operations and judicial affairs.
Senior Career Services Advisor – CPS and Graduate Studies The Career Services office at Champlain College provides comprehensive, innovative career development to undergraduate and graduate students/alumni, and actively prepares each student with meaningful opportunities for internships and career relevant employment. This is established through (a) a systematized career education process; (b) a series of programs and events that enhance and expand students’ career knowledge and skills; (c) a facilitation of connections with first-choice employers, recruiters, hiring managers, and executives in targeted organizations; (d) a variety of online and printed tools and resources specific to each students’ major and career related goals; and (e) a one-on-one career advising process that is targeted and customized to its respective academic and student constituent groups. The Senior Career Advisor for CPS & Graduate Studies provides leadership and clear career development direction for all online programs focused on adult populations, including graduate, nontraditional, online students and alumni. This position works closely with the Division of Continuing Professional Studies and the Office of Graduate Studies to coordinate the development of career curriculum initiatives across each program areas, and works with the academic advisors, program faculty, directors and deans to shepherd those initiatives through the appropriate career development process. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing customized individual career coaching and services, employer relations networking, and tracking employment status.
Copywriter/Content Producer, Marketing Champlain College is looking for a copywriter. The ideal candidate is a multi-faceted writer whose experience and talents strike a balance between marketer and content manager. Candidates must have the ability to generate well-crafted marketing solutions and content with reverence to brand guidelines and voice. The desired candidate is also a self-starter who is willing to take initiative, can work in a fast-paced environment, adapts quickly and gracefully to changing priorities, and desires to routinely engage with Champlain’s outstanding Marketing Team and external clients in highly respectful and professional collaboration. The Marketing Copywriter/Content Producer is part of Champlain College’s marketing group and reports directly to the Director of Creative Services to support recruitment and institution-wide, branded communication efforts. Working in partnership with the Director of Creative Services, the Marketing Copywriter/Content Producer will assist in the copy development and production of print and online marketing material ensuring that all projects are high quality, consistently appropriate for their intended audience, exceptionally well-branded and clearly reflect the mission and strategic direction of Champlain College.
For more information on this role at Champlain College and to apply, please check out this link to our website:
champlain.edu/hr
Champlain College values, supports and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives among students, faculty and staff. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Looking for a great way to spend your summer on Lake Champlain? Consider joining an incredible team of Camping Professionals at Camp Dudley at Kiniya in Colchester, VT!
New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest credit union with seven branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in service, convenience and simplicity. NEFCU offers a stable, supportive, high-standards work environment, where employees are treated as key stakeholders. Please visit our website, nefcu.com, to learn more about the great opportunities and benefits that exist at NEFCU.
Training Analyst/Facilitator
POSITIONS INCLUDE:
The NEFCU Training Analyst/Facilitator develops training programs by designing curriculum including clear, measureable learning objectives and course content which meets identified training goals set by management. The TA/F recommends appropriate methodology for training, obtains and maintains a database of appropriate knowledge experts, resources, and instructional materials to facilitate training initiatives and programs. The TA/F provides administrative support for training including oversight of training facilities, schedules, training records, student and program evaluation. This position is the primary relationship manager and knowledge expert on adult learning theory and applications for the credit union, including NEFCU’s online training software, and is liaison with our BVS Performance Systems software account relationship manager and support staff. The successful candidate will be able to work at a faster than average pace, be a comfortable, confident relationship builder and be attentive to details. Qualifications include: minimum two years’ course and curriculum development; training software competency and strong Microsoft Office applications experience including Excel and Power Point; and a minimum BA with curriculum/training/instruction experience with adult learners. This is a full-time exempt position reporting to the Senior HR/ OD Executive. This is an excellent opportunity for an educator wishing to work in the private sector. While not a trainer per se, the TA/F may teach certain curricular areas of personal expertise. Qualified applicants (no consultants, please) should submit a complete resume with salary history and cover letter illustrating reasons for interest and further qualification. Only applications with resume, cover letter and salary history will be considered. NEFCU enjoys an employer of choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10 percent. More than 96 percent of our 165 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work (2014 Annual Staff Survey). If you believe you have the qualifications to contribute to this environment, please send your resume and cover letter and salary history to hr@nefcu.com
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THEATER DIRECTOR MUSIC DIRECTOR PIANIST WATERSKI/WAKEBOARD INSTRUCTOR WSI SWIM INSTRUCTOR PADDLING INSTRUCTOR ATHLETIC COACHES Our camp season runs from June 15th – August 15th (with flexibility of start and finish dates). We offer an excellent work environment that includes room & board, if required. You’ll be working with the best staff in camping! Kiniya recruits coed staff members from across the United States and abroad. If interested in applying, please send resume with cover letter outlining specific experience and skills in area of expertise by email to the Camp Director at Marnie@campdudley.org.
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DIRECTOR OF WEB SERVICES
Provide leadership and hands-on management for the web, portal and mobile technologies, including managing and coordinating the people, products and processes associated with the web environment. This includes managing website operations and assuring alignment of web strategies with the university’s goals, mission, key messages, marketing, recruiting, branding strategies and all other strategic communications.
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Develop new programs or applications to deliver data from an Oracle/SCT Banner EIS in a web intranet environment. Develop or modify reports with SQL, PL/ SQL, Perl and Argos and other reporting tools. Provide EIS technical support to functional users. Ability to perform a variety of programming assignments requiring knowledge of established programming procedures and data processing requirements.
INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPER
Support university efforts to design and deliver distance learning programs. Consult with course design teams; develop and build quality online courses, interactive instructional content and training materials; adapt new emerging technologies to develop applications for online delivery.
CUSTODIANS
Seeking experienced and motivated workers to perform office, classroom, dormitory cleaning, and other duties, as required, in assigned work locations. Some overtime and weekend work may be required. Must successfully pass a post-offer, pre-employment physical examination.
RESIDENCY CONFERENCE ASSISTANTS
Several temporary positions available for the College of Graduate & Continuing Studies Residency Conference. Must be customer service oriented and able to commit to the following schedule: June 8-12 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.), June 15-19 (7 a.m.-8 p.m or later).; and June 22-24 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.).
Please visit our website, norwich.edu/jobs, for further information and how to apply for these and other great jobs. Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, group life and long-term disability insurance, flexible-spending accounts for health and dependent care, retirement annuity plan and tuition scholarships for eligible employees and their family members.
Information Technology Manager: Seeking an analytical-minded, hands-on individual to ensure CSAC’s technology systems enable and support clinical and business operations. Candidates will be able to plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of information systems and electronic data processing. Lead a small team of information systems personnel in providing help desk services and training to all staff. Minimum requirements: bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS or other appropriate field, plus four years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and experience. This is a full-time benefit eligible position. Adult Outpatient
Adult Outpatient Clinician (MSW): Seeking a master’s-level mental health professional with excellent clinical skills for a full-time benefited position. Position will be providing outpatient psychotherapy primarily to adults on a short-term, longterm and intermittent basis. Experience in short-term treatment and understanding of utilization management preferred. Experience providing mental health services in a community setting is desirable. MSW required; LADC licensure is a plus. Strong assessment skills and a willingness to collaborate with a larger AOP team are critical. Youth & Family
After-School Behavior Interventionist: To implement direct intervention and training plans according to established protocols in order to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior and daily living skills to children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Bachelor’s degree in education or the human services field. Some experience with children necessary. Must possess valid driver’s license, clean driving record and own transportation. This is a part-time position.
Behavior Interventionist: Looking for experience working with children with special needs, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or emotional and behavioral challenges? Are you interested in learning new skills, especially in the growing field of applied behavior analysis (ABA)? Join our ABA services team at the Counseling Service of Addison County. We are hiring enthusiastic and team-oriented individuals to provide one-on-one support and training in behavioral, social and communicative skills to children in home and school settings. Training and supervision in ABA, trauma-informed supports and ASD interventions provided. Various positions are available, varying from full-time to hourly. Bachelor’s degree required. Foster family: Sought for a child of our community. An 11-year-old girl who loves Frozen, arts and crafts and animals needs a home preferably with no other children. Caregiver needs to have patience and the ability to self-regulate while providing structure, consistency and nurturing. Family will receive support from a team of service providers, training, respite and a monthly reimbursement. Call Laurie Mumley at 388-4660. Therapeutic Support Worker: Seeking dedicated staff to provide positive community support for transition-age youth after school. This is a community-based position that requires flexibility with hours and the ability to work effectively in a positive manner with a variety of individuals within and outside the agency. Bachelor’s degree required. One to two years of experience preferred. Use of own vehicle as well as a good driving record is required. This is a part-time position.
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Director of Product Development Can you design hats and accessories? Do ideas spill from your brain? Is “Fanatically Organized” your middle name? Does color, texture and pattern consume your life? Do you see new markets and directions in your sleep? Do you obsess about what others are wearing? Can you manage and work within a team? If yes, then Turtle Fur, a leading headwear and accessory company based in Morrisville, wants you. Other titles that define this position: Head Designer/Product Developer/ Merchandiser/ Brand Developer/Director of New Ideas. Responsibilities: • Collaboratively manage design department • Manage multi-season/market product line development • Design salable, profitable product • Achieve company goal of 50 percent of sales in three years to be derived from new products • Collaborate product directions in conjunction with sales team • Stay abreast of current trends; share customer and market perspectives on a regular basis • Continue expansion into four-season brand • Help increase sales and improve margins • Demonstrate strong leadership and excel at interpersonal communication with all levels of the organization • Build constructive and effective relationships with peers, vendors and industry partners • Collaborate with manufacturing on vendors, calendar and costing strategies to facilitate production planning • Existing sourcing relationships are a plus • Sales analytics • Oversee product quality, fit and construction • Foster a team environment with strong, free-flowing communication • System and computer literate • Some travel: trade shows, Asia, the world Director of Product Development reports to Chief Turtle. Send resume, portfolio, salary requirements and anything else that will make us crack our shell to hr@turtlefurgroup.com.
Global Production Assistant Looking for our new Super Turtle to work effectively with vendors around the world on costing, quality and product specifications; process and expedite purchase and production orders; work with our Logistics Turtle to coordinate overseas shipments; accurately process bills of material and cost cards in our inventory management system; and stay current on US import requirements. This is just for starters! You will work collaboratively with various Turtle departments in our fast paced environment. You must multitask, communicate clearly and effectively, process mountains of work accurately, and think creatively to identify and solve inefficiencies. Experience with business computing software is a huge plus. Speed and competency with Excel is required. Apply with cover letter and resume via email to bsnow@turtlefurgroup.com.
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Graphic/Creative Designer The Marketing Team at Turtle Fur®, a leader in headwear and cold weather accessories for over 30 years, is searching for a Graphic Designer to join us at the Turtles’ Nest (our home office in Morrisville, VT). The ideal candidate will possess an Associate or Bachelors degree in graphic design, communication or related area of study, and 2-4 years of design experience. You must be highly skilled in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro. Knowledge of web design (HTML, CSS), video production, and social media is required, and be comfortable working with Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook with familiarity working on a PC platform. As a designer you should have experience following brand standards and be comfortable generating and contributing creative ideas, as well as giving and receiving constructive criticism. Must be well-versed in preparing artwork for final production (print & web), have abundant creativity coupled with the desire to explore visual ideas and brand focused storytelling, a love for the outdoors, and an impressive work ethic.
Energetic, enthusiastic manager wanted to lead apparel/accessories sales team at the Alpine Shop in South Burlington. Qualifications: 3+ years retail management experience, positive outlook, passion for the outdoors and excellent interpersonal skills. Benefits include 401(k), merchandise discounts and free skiing at many area resorts.
Send résumé and cover letter to team@alpineshopvt.com.
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The New School of Montpelier
Please send resume, salary requirements, and portfolio samples to hr@turtlefurgroup.com
We are a small, independent school serving unique children and youth. We are recruiting dedicated individuals to join our diverse staff in this exciting and challenging work. Positions start immediately.
Director of Marketing Turtle Fur, a leading headwear and accessory company based in Morrisville seeks a Director of Marketing who is creative, experienced in consumer product/ brand advertising for both B2B and B2C, a good collaborative manager, and a team player. Responsibilities:
Paraprofessional/ Behavior Interventionist
• Collaboratively manage marketing department • Help increase sales and with improved margins • Help Turtle Fur expand into a four-season brand • Develop and implement a marketing plan and budget encompassing all phases of catalogs, wholesale support, digital and print campaigns, website design, imagery and brand message • Expand and build on our successful charity programs • Explore sponsorships, charity, and local and national event participation • Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing strategy and modify as necessary • Hands-on project manage the execution of all catalogs • Work with the team to develop and execute the strategy for web and social media, ensuring content is appropriate with our brand image • Seek new and oversee our brand ambassadors to ensure they are meeting their obligations to the brand and our expectations • Work closely with our wholesale sales team to ensure that marketing strategies are aligned with sales objectives • Demonstrate strong leadership and excel at interpersonal communication with all levels of the organization • Build constructive and effective relationships with peers, vendors and industry partners • Foster a team environment with strong free-flowing communication • Computer literate • Some travel to trade shows • Reports to Chief Turtle Send resume, portfolio, salary requirements and anything else that will make us crack our shell to hr@turtlefurgroup.com
This is a one-on-one, paraprofessional position supporting students in the development of academic, communication, vocational, social and self-regulation skills. Settings may include classroom, one-on-one environments and the community. Must possess good communication/ collaboration skills. An associate’s degree or five years experience after high school preferred. Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle. Criminal record checks will be conducted for final candidates. Submit a resume to: The New School of Montpelier 11 West Street Montpelier, VT 05602 or email to: ddellinger@nsmvt.org No phone calls, please! EOE
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mentAl HeAltH And substAnce Abuse services
Payroll Manager Dynamic team leader responsible for administering timely and accurate payroll(s) and related reporting. Requirements include knowledge of centralized payroll processes within a large organization, wage and labor laws, federal and state tax regulations and proven experience as a payroll manager. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, a passion to streamline organizational processes, a bachelor’s degree in accounting or business management and advanced MS Excel/data analysis skills. Full-time. Job ID 2509
Clinician Substance Abuse, St. Albans Seeking a full-time substance abuse clinician to join our team. The purpose of this job is to provide substance abuse assessment and treatment to adult clients, individually and in a group in our outpatient clinic. Full-time. Evening hours required. Job ID 2508
Payroll Administrator This position is a member of the payroll team that is responsible for administering timely and accurate payroll(s) and all related reporting, on a biweekly basis, for more than 1,300 staff that totals more than 40 million dollars annually in wages. This administrative position is ideal for someone with experience in (or exposure to) centralized payroll processes within a large organization, wage and labor laws and federal and state tax regulations. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, a passion to streamline organizational processes, proficiency with Excel, a level of comfort with data analysis and be a dynamic team member. HS Diploma required. Full-time. Job ID 2510
Clinician, Substance Abuse, Chittenden Clinic Master’s-level clinician sought to provide individual, group and family counseling and health home service to patients enrolled in outpatient opioid treatment program. Full-time. Job ID 2254
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Residential Counselor, Shelter Plus Seeking energetic and professional individual to provide a safe environment for adults with major mental illness living in a residential setting. Work with residents in establishing and reaching goals aimed at independent living. Help develop coping and symptom management skills. Must have ability to exercise sound judgment and to be compassionate and respectful. Bachelor’s degree required; human services experience desirable. Full-time, 40 hours (including one asleep overnight), excellent benefits and paid time off. Job ID 2515
Job Coach Project Hire is looking for a dynamic individual to join our supported employment team in the role of Job Coach. Job Coaches are responsible for assisting individuals with Developmental Disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders at their jobs by offering direct support, promoting skill acquisition, independence and integration within the employment setting. Job Coaches support a variety of individuals at varied jobsites. Part-time. Job ID 2504
Clinicians (two), Community Support Compassionate/hardworking BA-level clinicians sought to provide case management & recovery-focused community supports. Job ID 1889
Substance Abuse Clinical Care Coordinator Looking for master’s-level clinician to fill the role of Substance Abuse Clinical Care Coordinator. The Care Coordinator may provide assessment, counseling, and referral, but the primary focus is on ensuring that clients receive coordinated care that addresses the aspects of health home services. Full-time. Job ID 2505
Residential Counselor, Allen House Seeking an energetic and professional individual to provide a safe environment for persons with major mental illness and some co-occurring substance abuse issues living in an independent permanent housing environment. Provide supportive counseling, medication management and crisis intervention, as needed. Help residents strengthen coping and symptom management skills. Must have the ability to exercise sound judgment and to be compassionate and respectful. Bachelor’s degree required; human services experiences desirable. Part-time, four hours on Sunday mornings/early afternoon. Job ID 2519
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Senior&economic SpecialiSt (captive inSurance) Tourism Marketing:Development Director of Communications Agency of Commerce & Community Development
The Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development seeks a self-driven, results-oriented individual with strong people and Job Description:
sales skills to help grow Vermont’s thriving captive insurance and financial services industries. Vermont is a global leader in this exciting
Looking for LPN or RN for a busy OBGYN practice. Must have strong triage/ telephone skills as well as experience in OBGYN. Applicant must be detail oriented and able to multitask and have strong PC skills.
Experienced professional lead More thethan Vermont Department Tourism financial field, ranking third in the worldsought for captives to domiciled. 1,000 companies have licensed of captives in Vermont, including nearly half of the Fortune 100. This position works closely with the Director of Financial Services, the Captive Insurance & Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position Division at the Department of Financial Regulation, as well as directly with existing captive insurance companies, prospects, and all is aspects designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage of Vermont in the of the captive insurance industry. national and international marketplace. The Director Communications is The ideal candidate has experience in any of the following areas: financial services, of captive insurance, insurance, economic development, sales, marketing and public relations. An insurance designation is a plus. Expertise in PowerPoint, social media and responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business web content management systems is preferred. The ability to travel out of state is required, and potentially international travel. This outreach plan with the goals and mission theofDepartment of may include individual will assist consistent in marketing and promotion activities under the direction of the of Director Financial Services. This the development of market plans, advertising, web activities, promotional materials, research projects, trade shows, events and public Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications relations activities. The position will require report writing, administrative duties, prospecting, updating databases, budgeting, contracts, Looking for a Medical projects, scheduling andtools. other duties. viaresearch social networking This position is responsible for all tourism media Assistant part-time This individual must have and a demonstrated ability to effectively person, on the phone and in writing and have relations in-state out-of-state; presscommunicate releaseindevelopment; pitching targeted 16-24 hours per week, a demonstrated ability to multitask projects to successful completion. Attention to detail and follow-up are also critical. For tourism storycontact ideas regional and national media; development of press must be flexible more information, Danto Towle at dan.towle@state.vt.us or at 802-828-5232. Reference Job ID #616501. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full time. and Application deadline: March 22, 2015. with hours. Good familiarization trips itineraries; management of media contact lists; and telephone skills. Strong support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives. The Director phlebotomy and will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the injection skills desired. development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This OB-GYN experience Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications Department Childrento and Families position willforreport the Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing. a plus! Please send Committed customer service professionals with troubleshooting and problem-solving skills needed to lead teams of Benefit Program Job Description: resume to Specialists in the State of Vermont’s Healthcare Access Eligibility Unit. Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and written skills; have a BA in jobs@maitriobgyn.com. professional to lead theof Vermont Department of Tourism JobExperienced duties include: benefit program eligibilitysought determination, delegation tasks, monitoring performance, assisting team members with Public Relations or related fitrade eld; have a minimum of fivemission-critical years of relevant the & interpretation and application of and complex business processes, training and coaching. As a supervisor, you will position act aswork the primary Marketing’s public relations efforts. This point of contact for staff and escalated knowledge customer inquiries.of TheVermont ideal candidate will have the ability to stay calm andindustry. both experience; demonstrate and Vermont’s tourism ismembers designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage of Vermont indeescalate theproductive team and customers, make decisions under pressure, prioritize work and provide feedback in a professional and 3v-MaitriHealth031115.indd 1 3/9/15 10:44 AM manner. Strong communication and technicalmarketplace. skills are required. The Director of Communications is national and international Resume, writing samples andinahuman minimum of threeor references should beand oral Requirements: Case management experience services, employment training/education. Strong written responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business communication skills, strong computer skills/aptitude. submitted to plan Kittyconsistent Sweet, Vermont of Commerce andDepartment Communityof outreach with theAgency goals and mission of the For more information, contact Sara LeBlanc by email: Sara.LeBlanc@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID #616552. Location: Status: Development, One NationalasLife Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. Inand Essex. out-ofTourism and Marketing wellDrive, as maintaining consistent communications Full time. Application deadline: March 18, 2015. social networking tools. This position is responsible for all tourism media statevia travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000. Lake Champlain Boat Launch Stewards relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted tourism story ideas to regional and national media; development of press The Lake Champlain Basin Program and New England familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; and Department for Children and Families Interstate Water Pollution support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives. The Director Control Commission seek up Experienced human services professional needed to assist with administrative operations in the State of Vermont’s Healthcare Access will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the to 10 part-time Boat Launch Eligibility Unit. development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This Stewards to deliver aquatic As Assistant Director, you will be responsible for personnel management, distribution and analysis of work, budget monitoring, reporting invasive species spread position will report to the Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing. and filling in for the Regional Manager when necessary. This position requires the ability to distill and interpret complex information and
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explain the rationale for decisions to staff, customers, and agency partners as appropriate.
TheCandidates ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of strong management theory, management andhave staff development, must: demonstrate oral and writtenpractice, skills; a BA in as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry.
Requirements: Professional human services and supervisory experience.
Job description available at lcbp.org. Send résumé, letter of interest summarizing relevant experience, and two references to NEIWPCC, Attn: HR, #15-LCBP-003, 650 Suffolk Street, Suite 410, Lowell, MA 01854, or email to jobs@neiwpcc.org, subject line: 15-LCBP-003 by March 31, 2015. EOE
For more information, contact Sara LeBlanc by email: Sara.LeBlanc@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID #616517. Location: Essex. Status: Full time. Application deadline: March 19, 2015.
Resume, writing samples and a minimum of three references should be submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. In- and out-ofTo apply, you must use the online job application at careers.vermont.gov. For questions related to your application, please contact the Department of state travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000. Human Resources, Recruitment Services, at 855-828-6700 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of Vermont is an equal opportunity employer and offers an excellent total compensation package.
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deck hands wanted The Whistling Man Schooner Co. operates the Friend Ship, which is a gaff rig sailboat that offers sailing tours from the Burlington waterfront. We are looking for deck hands for the summer season. A deck hand on the Friend Ship is the first contact that our customers have when sailing with us so our deck hands must be friendly, courteous and knowledgeable about the boat, the lake and sailing. Duties include preparing the boat for the day’s trips, greeting passengers and helping them board, interacting with passengers while they are onboard, raising and lowering sails, and serving passengers’ needs. Send resumes to captain@whistlingman.com.
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Immediate opening for a Delivery Driver/ Equipment Installer. Please review job requirements and download an application and submit with resume from: kittredgeequipment.com Careers > Williston, VT
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Want to join the booming health care IT industry and work in a fantastic team culture? Perhaps you, too, desire the friendly, casual, hardworking and client-focused environment offered by our 65-employee company located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski. PCC has designed, developed and supported our award winning pediatric software for more than 30 years. As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. As our electronic health record solution is driving greater demand for our services, we want to expand our team. As a result, we are seeking to fill the role of:
Office Manager We are seeking a personable, dynamic person to oversee the daily operations of our office. Our Office Manager wears many hats and provides customer service to both our staff and our clients. Responsibilities include overseeing the general operations of our office, being an expert on our phone system and cellphone plans, event planning, assisting with hiring and employee benefits, and providing backup for incoming phone calls. Our ideal candidate is detail oriented, computer savvy, eager to lend a hand whenever needed and understands the importance of providing excellent customer service. To learn more about PCC, this role and how to apply, please visit our website at pcc.com/careers. The deadline for submitting your application is March 13. No phone calls, please.
RN Supervisor position available in our 50-bed Rehabilitation and Continuing Care Facility in Northfield, Vermont. Full time; evening shift E-mail or send resume and cover letter to:
bconnor@mayohc.org or Barbara Connor, RN, DNS 71 Richardson Street, Northfield, VT 05663 802-485-3161 Fax: 802-485-6307
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New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest credit union with seven branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in service, convenience and simplicity. NEFCU offers a stable, supportive, high-standards work environment, where employees are treated as key stakeholders. Please visit our website, nefcu.com, to learn more about the great opportunities and benefits that exist at NEFCU.
Accounting Supervisor NEFCU has an opportunity for an Accounting Supervisor at our Water Tower Hill Colchester office to supervise and support staff and activities associated with Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, and Investment Portfolio Accounting. The Accounting Supervisor ensures all general ledger accounts are reconciled with appropriate research and documentation, recommends procedures to support efficient department functions, assists the Controller with month-end/quarter-end/year-end closing reports, and completes special regulatory reporting and compliance reporting associated with 5300 Call reports, exam schedules, IRA withholding and FHLB Qualified Collateral. The Accounting Supervisor also reconciles Secondary Mortgage Market and Mortgage Servicing activities and performs or assists with various consumer loan accounting functions. The preferred candidate will have a BA in Accounting or Finance, knowledge of GAAP practices, and a minimum 3 years experience in a financial institution including supervision of accounting staff and related functions. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook is required along with a strong capacity in spreadsheet application and the ability to present financial information. Qualified applicants should submit a complete résumé with salary history, and cover letter illustrating reasons for interest and further qualification. Only applications with résumé, cover letter and salary history will be considered.
NEFCU enjoys an employer-of-choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10 percent. More than 96 percent of our 200 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work. - 2014 Annual Staff Survey If you believe you have the qualifications to contribute to this environment, please send your résumé and cover letter and salary history to: hr@nefcu.com.
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REGISTER NOW Housekeeping Supervisor
Assist in overseeing the daily housekeeping procedures and provide our guests with quality housekeeping services. • Strong communication AT WWW.CCV.EDU OR skills • Attention to detail a must • Available to work weekends AT THE CCV LOCATION We offer a competitive NEAREST wage, insurance, 401(k), hotel discounts. YOU
• Organizing daily tasks • Maintaining cleanliness of hotel in all areas
INTERN ARCHITECT Immediate opening. Two to five years experience with commercial construction documents. Proficiency with Revit, AutoCad required. SketchUp skills preferred. Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Architecture required. Competitive salary and benefits. Email letter of interest and resume to estelle@scottpartners.com. No phone calls, please. www.scottpartners.com
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Brickliners Custom Masonry and Chimney Service in Williston is hiring
To apply, visit: brickliners.com/ about-us/employment
Coordinator of Academic Services CCV - Winooski
Employment opportunities
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Medical Clinical Coding Specialist The medical coding specialist reviews medical documentation and performs a variety of coding validations to determine billing and payment accuracy. The specialist reassigns and sequences diagnostic and procedural codes using universally recognized coding systems. He or she is also responsible for compiling and analyzing statistics to determine focus areas for medical review activities. Additionally, the position supports ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping and overall business requirements. Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of experience in health insurance setting, RN degree preferred; formal coding certification, ICD-10 certification, in depth knowledge of CPT, ICD-9, ICD-10, HCPCS, or DRG. This is a part-time position of 20 hours per week with the potential to expand.
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IT Business Analyst The IT business analyst provides expertise in support of business and systems IT department initiatives. Initiatives include development of business requirements, comprehension of related business rules and analysis of process, systems, data and procedures.
To view the full posting and apply, complete the online application form at ccv.edu/learn-aboutccv/employment/staff-positions including required attachments.
He or she works closely with the IT leader, business unit owner and assigned project manager in order to meet the technology and process needs of assigned projects. This position must provide expertise in the definition, testing, training, implementation and support of business and functional requirements.
CCV offers a competitive salary with a generous benefits package including medical/dental/vision insurance, paid leave including 20 vacation days/14 holidays/personal days/sick time, 12 percent retirement contribution and tuition waiver. CCV is committed to non-discrimination in its learning and working environments for all persons. All educational and employment opportunities at CCV are offered without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
BS or BA in business or closely related field or equivalent experience required; 3–5 years of experience in business analysis and system design and implementation required; experience in health care or health insurance setting; project planning and project support desired.
CCV is an equal opportunity employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. All new full-time employees and certain part-time employees will be subject to a fingerprint-supported criminal background check. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the satisfactory results of this check.
We offer great benefits, competitive salaries, and an award-winning worksite wellness program that promotes a culture of health and wellness. And, all in a great location in Berlin, Vermont. Apply online at www.bcbsvt.com.
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Join dynamic, collaborative teams at the CCV Winooski Academic Center and Center for Online Learning. This position will coordinate upper level core curricula in writing, communication, and humanities subjects as well as recruit and supervise faculty. Master’s degree required. Previous or current college teaching experience in related subjects, as well as fluency with an online learning platform (CCV uses Moodle) and Microsoft Office are desired. Experience with post-secondary education is important, as is familiarity with instructional support and supervision. Submit application materials by March 17.
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PeakCM, LLC www.PeakCM.com
PeakCM is a general contractor currently based out of Vermont and Florida. We are looking to add to our team. Please send a resume and cover letter to the following address or email:
Champlain Community Services CCS is seeking dynamic staff to provide one-on-one inclusion supports to help individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities lead a fulfilling life, reach their goals and be active members of their community.
450 Weaver Street, Suite #3, Winooski, VT 05404 988-1092 info@peakcm.com
We are currently accepting resumes for the following positions for the North East Kingdom and Chittenden County areas: • • • •
Project Engineer Estimator Equipment Operator (min. 5 yrs experience) Superintendent
This position offers you a chance to hone your skills in human services while working in a fun, supportive environment. We currently have several part-time positions with excellent benefits, training development, competitive wages and the opportunity to improve the lives of others.
• Construction Foreman (min. 5 yrs experience) • Carpenters/Assistant Carpenters • Laborers
Submit a letter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz at staff@ccs-vt.org.
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Director of Student Recruitment Marketing
For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings” SUNY College at Plattsburgh is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.
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Are you looking for a job that will provide you with a feeling of daily accomplishment & the satisfaction of helping others? The Residence at Shelburne Bay, a beautiful premier Level III hospitalityoriented senior living community in Shelburne, is currently accepting applications for:
LPN
Evenings
Caregivers
Evenings & Overnights
Overnight Receptionist
Do you have superior interpersonal skills? Do you have strong computer and administrative skills? This is a full-time position for someone who possesses excellent customer service skills and thrives in a fast-paced, client-centered environment. This position oversees all office operations including receiving guests, preparing payables and other financial information, managing confidential records and providing administrative support for multiple programs. Applicants must possess strong computer and technology skills. Previous experience in an active office environment is required. Knowledge of the criminal justice system and community resources is a plus.
Pretrial Monitor
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Activities Assistant Part time
Do you want to help enhance Vermont’s criminal justice system? Do you have strong computer and administrative skills?
Wait Staff Part time
This is a full-time position for someone who possesses strong communication skills, a clear sense of boundaries, brings a human services background and has an understanding of restorative practices. The pretrial monitor will serve the counties of Orleans and Lamoille. Responsibilities include administering risk and needs screenings, conducting criminal history checks and monitoring the compliance of those released into the community. The pretrial monitor will work closely with law enforcement, the State’s Attorney, defense attorneys, the Court and other stakeholders. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field, strong computer and technology skills, knowledge of the criminal justice system and supportive community resources required.
Housekeeper The Residence is an equal opportunity employer offering competitive rates and benefits and a comfortable and peaceful working environment where residents are nurtured and allowed to age with grace and dignity.
Send your resume to employment@residencesheburnebay.com or stop by and fill out an application.
Interested individuals can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to info@lrcvt.org. Applications accepted until position is filled. LRC is an equal opportunity employer. lrcvt.org
The Residence at Shelburne Bay 185 Pine Haven Shores Road Shelburne, VT 05482
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Sales Executive The Vermont Convention Bureau is a statewide organization created 26 years ago to bring meetings, conferences and events to Vermont. We are a division of the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC). Our goal is to search out meeting planners, provide them with information on why Vermont is the best choice for their meeting or event, and match them with a VCB member. These high-value, low-impact meetings and events produce a significant revenue stream for Vermont’s economy. The Sales Executives’ (SE) primary responsibility is to meet assigned objectives by building and maintaining effective relationships with assigned members, prospects and new members, using a consultative sales methodology. The SE develops and maintains relationships with these accounts that result in the discovery of sales opportunities and lead generation for our members. The SE identifies sales opportunities for our members and follows established guidelines in ensuring their successful execution. In addition, the SE educates partners, on VCB programs and initiatives and provides them with the support necessary for them to deliver value to the members. The SE identifies, coordinates and participates in outreach events for the VCB and LCRCC. Salesforce and hospitality experience a plus. Some overnight travel required. Send resumes to susan@vermont.org.
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King Street Center is seeking a teacher for a new collaborative program with Champlain Valley Head Start in the Early Childhood classroom. Our new program serves children ages 18 months to three years old, providing a nurturing and caring environment where children learn and grow. We are seeking an energetic, enthusiastic and flexible person with a sense of humor and compassion to work with our King Street families. -Child Development Associate (CDA) required, bachelor’s degree preferred -Training or equivalent coursework in early childhood development with a focus on infant and toddler development Interested applicants should send resume, cover letter and three references to: Vicky Smith Executive Director King Street Center P.O. Box 1615 Burlington, VT 05402 vicky@kingstreetcenter.org
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Now hiring a
Cashier - Food Service
Customer Service Person
Chittenden Central Supervisory Union
who enjoys a fast-paced environment. Experience preferred. Generous pay.
The work you do in a day … will last forever.
Water Chestnut Coordinator
Apply in person at 992 Shelburne Road, South Burlington.
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Account AssociAte, employee AssistAnce progrAm Innovative, statewide Employee Assistance Program seeks part-time Contractor for outreach promoting healthy workplaces in the heart of the Green Mountains!
The Nature Conservancy seeks a Water Chestnut Coordinator 4:20 PM based in our Poultney office, performing important invasive weed control practices. This is a full-time seasonal position from June 25-August 26. Apply by March 25 at nature.org/careers. Job ID 42917.
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Part-time position available to operate the cash register and perform a variety of routine food service tasks for the Essex Community Educational Center. Position pays $12.74 per hour. Position is available for the school year only (approximately 177 days). The hours are expected to be 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (3.25 hours per day). Basic Education (high school or equivalent), plus one year of related food service and cashiering experience preferred. For more information and a list of job duties, please go to schoolspring.com and enter Job ID 1276982. For consideration, please apply electronically through schoolspring.com to the Job ID referenced, or stop by to complete an application at 51 Park Street, Essex Jct., VT 05452. EOE.
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Hours are flexible and range from two to five hours per week, typically during normal business hours. Work includes providing engaging presentations to the EAP’s client companies. Presentations include EAP orientations to Vermont’s diverse workforce, trainings to business owners, managers and supervisors, and one- to two-hour workshops on a variety of topics. The Account Associate is responsible for data reporting and accountability for deliverables.
Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following clinician positions in our Center for Counseling and Psychology Services:
Qualities Required: Savvy professional who
Eldercare Clinician: Provide assessment, psychotherapy and social support services to
is energetic, articulate, organized, persistent, a self-starter who proactively engages others, and proficient with current technology including word processing, spreadsheets, sales databases and webinar conferencing. The successful candidate will be able to work independently and to follow directions from Account Manager.
Education and Experience: Master’s degree and/ or 10 years’ experience preferred. The desired candidate will have formal business presentation and customer service experience.
Hiring Regions: Randolph Rutland Middlebury St. Albans Waterbury
Outpatient Clinician: Mental Health clinician needed to provide clinical services to adults
in a physician’s office. This position is co-located in central Vermont primary care offices and employed through Washington County Mental Health Services. A master’s degree, license eligible, a collaborative approach, and at least one year of experience providing psychotherapy is required for this full-time salaried position. Experience and interest in behavioral psychology desired.
geriatric clients utilizing an outreach based approach. Services will be provided primarily in elders’ homes, although the opportunity may also exist for the periodic provision of services in an office setting based in our outpatient group practice. The primary focus of the outreach components of this position will be in the Orange County geographical area. Specific training in geriatrics or gerontology required. Familiarity with evaluations and guardianship protocol is a valuable tool. Applicant must be comfortable working independently, with the knowledge that supervision and a supportive team approach is available as needed. A master’s degree, license eligible, with a minimum of one year experience providing psychotherapy required for this full-time-salaried position.
Clinical Case Manager for Trauma Programs: Providing assessment, case management and supportive therapy to adults and families whose lives have been impacted by trauma. Service delivery is team-oriented and both office- and community-based. Collaborations and consultations with treatment team will involve WCMHS and community programs, focusing on the effects of trauma, trauma treatment and coordinating community supports and resources for clients. Master’s-level clinician with knowledge of the effects of trauma and experience working with populations impacted by trauma. Experience working in home based settings preferred. Must have safe vehicle and clean driving record. This is a regular, full-time position with benefits. Must be willing to work some evening hours. To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org. Apply through our website or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601.
Send resumes to angieb@investeap.org.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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NKHS is a not-for-profit community mental health center serving residents of Caledonia, Essex & Orleans counties. We have multiple full-time positions located in St. Johnsbury and/or Derby. Our current openings include:
• Chief of Adult Services • Outpatient Therapist • Senior Department Director, CYFS Support & Stabilization • Senior Department Director, School Based Services • Program Director, Outpatient Services (MH)
• Program Director, Children’s Day Treatment/BI • School-Based Clinician • Pediatric Social Worker • Community Skills Worker • Case Managers, Children’s
We offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in the Northeast Kingdom. Our benefits include low-cost medical & dental coverages, short/long-term disability coverages, retirement/403(b) plan, life insurance, AFLAC, employee assistance program, 12 holidays per year plus 24 sick and vacation days, long-term care plan & additional optional benefits.
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To learn more about current job opportunities, please visit our website, nkhs.org. Apply through our website or send resume and letter of interest to jobs@nkhs.net or Bianca Brenk, NKHS, POB 724, Newport, VT 05855. Join our growing program today!
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Washington County Mental Health Services is a not-for-profit Community Mental Health Center. We provide a wide variety of support and treatment opportunities for children, adolescents, families and adults living with the challenges of mental illness, emotional and behavioral issues, and developmental disabilities. These services are both office- and community-based through outreach. The range of services offered includes prevention and wellness, assessment and stabilization, and 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week emergency response.
Our current openings include: • Accounting Supervisor
• Sobriety Support Worker
• Residential and Community Support Specialist
• Home Intervention Counselors
• Employment Specialist/Representative
• Maintenance Generalist
• Residential Counselors
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• Residential/Group home floaters
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in partnership with the Center for Earth Ministry seeks a motivated and experienced Project Manager. This grant-funded, twoyear position will direct the design, facilitation, and evaluation of a multi-stakeholder process to identify strategic methods to improve the water quality of Lake Champlain and implement the action plans to achieve water quality goals. The Project Manager will serve as the primary liaison between the system-mapping consultant and the steering committee, schedule and plan all activities, support project planning and fundraising, coordinate all communication and outreach, and manage a complex project budget. The project manager will be a self-motivated individual with strong communication skills and ability to build consensus. The ideal candidate will have at least a bachelor’s degree, three-to-five years experience managing complex projects, and a demonstrated understanding of water quality issues. A valid driver’s license and willingness to travel throughout the region are required. To apply: Send résumé and cover letter to ECHO Job Search. Please put VFL Project Manager in the subject line of the email and send to: jobs@echovermont.org.
We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive package of benefits including generous paid sick, vacation, and holiday leave; medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability; life insurance; an employee assistance program; and a 403(b) retirement account. Most positions require a valid driver’s license, good driving record and access to a safe, insured vehicle.
Application deadline: March 27, 2015
To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org.
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Nurse Burlington Emergency & Veterinary Specialists (BEVS) is seeking motivated, outgoing and hard-working individuals for full- and part-time client care representative positions. This position requires multitasking for a highvolume veterinary practice. Minimum one year experience working in a customer service setting is required for this position. Experience working in a veterinary practice is preferred but not required. Full details at bevsvt.com. Candidates interested in working at BEVS should email cover letter and resume to jobs@bevsvt.com.
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Looking for an exciting and rewarding nursing position? If you are an industrious and compassionate individual who truly wants to help people and join an incredible team, then the Arbors at Shelburne may be the right place for you!
p/t PICTURE FRAMING AND GALLERY ASSISTANT
We have an immediate opening for a full-time evening nurse with a
$2,000 Sign-On Bonus. We offer competitive salary, outstanding shift differentials, benefit package, tuition reimbursement, bonus opportunities and a team-focused workplace. Please submit a cover letter and resume via email to:
tgraham@benchmarkquality.com Tara Graham, Executive Director
Shelburne If you are a fast learner, like working with the public and being around art, this job is for you! Skills in picture framing and retail would be most welcome, but experience is not necessary. We also appreciate any familiarity with graphic design and creative marketing. We offer a flexible schedule, friendly work environment, potential for more hours, benefits, and pay increases. Part-time approx. 12-16 hours weekly to start. Please send a resume and/or statement about your education and experience, your skills, and your interests to joan@fsgallery.com
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The Arbors at Shelburne 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 985-8600
A Benchmark Assisted Living Community, EOE.
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The Chappaquiddick Beach Club in Edgartown, Mass. is now hiring for the 2015 summer season Must be available to work early June to September 9, 2015 Hiring for Lifeguard, Swim Instructor Front Desk, Van Driver, Floater Visit our website, chappaquiddickbc.org, for application details.
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Want to join the booming health care IT industry and work in a fantastic team culture? Perhaps you, too, desire the friendly, casual, hardworking and client-focused environment offered by our 65-employee company located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski. PCC has designed, developed and supported our awardwinning pediatric software for more than 30 years. As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. As our electronic health record solution is driving greater demand for our services, we want to expand our team. As a result, we are seeking to fill the role of:
Software Solutions Specialist If you are an energetic, hard working and curious individual who understands the meaning of customer care, we invite you to join our Software Solutions Team. Enjoy helping our pediatric practice clients build their practice management and EHR software skills and confidence while working as part of a dedicated, customer-centered team. Interest in a career that features solving challenging problems, training and travel is a must. Prior experience in health care technology desired, but not required. Please note that this is an entry-level position. To learn more about PCC, this role and how to apply, please visit our website at pcc.com/careers. The deadline for submitting your application is March 13. No phone calls, please. 7-Lowes031115.indd 1
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EXCELLENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Are you looking for a job that will provide you with a feeling of daily accomplishment & the satisfaction of helping others? The Residence at Shelburne Bay, a beautiful premier Level III hospitality-oriented senior living community in Shelburne, is currently accepting applications for:
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Overnight Receptionist
Wait Staff
Caregivers
Activities Assistant
Housekeeper
Evenings
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Evenings & Overnights
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Financial Analyst
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Evolution HCM Technology is innovating the way organizations manage their most important asset — their people. By combining revolutionary SaaS technology and expert services, Evolution HCM Technology delivers an all-inclusive, scalable and high value Human Capital Management software that gives our customers a substantial business advantage. We are one of the fastestgrowing technology companies in our home state of Vermont and are proud to employ a team of dynamic innovators from around the globe.
The Residence is an equal opportunity employer offering competitive rates and benefits and a comfortable and peaceful working environment where residents are nurtured and allowed to age with grace and dignity.
Send your resume to employment@residencesheburnebay.com or stop by and fill out an application.
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To view the complete job description and apply online, please visit www.evolutionhcm.com.
Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following for case management positions in our Community Support Program:
Assistant Director of Case Management: Seeking career oriented individual with strong clinical skills, good work ethic, collaborative leadership skills, and a recovery oriented approach; to assist with the oversight of services for adults with serious co-occurring and mental health diagnoses. Must be licensed in mental health field in Vermont, and have at least three years of experience working with comparable population. Management experience and a good sense of humor appreciated.
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City Manager Posting
Three Season Parks Maintenance Assistants
The City of South Burlington, Vermont seeks a collaborative, energetic, City Manager. South Burlington (population 17,900) is a growing, dyna with a strong tradition of civic engagement. Located adjacent to Lake C University of Vermont, the city includes a nationally recognized school Thissectors, positionhospital is May-October retail and hospitality and world class recreational oppor Salary: $12-$16recognized per hour, DOQ/E; Family Circle magazine South EOE/AA Burlington as one of the “Ten Deadline: March 30, 2015 Families.”
Community-Based Case Manager: Seeking a recovery-oriented clinician to provide case management to adults participating in community mental health services. This is a fastpaced outreach position that includes supportive counseling, service coordination, skills teaching, benefits support, and advocacy; and requires someone who is compassionate, creative, well organized, honest, dependable, and strength based. Prefer person with Master’s Degree in related field and a minimum of one-year related experience. Will consider applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in a related field with more extensive experience. Supervision toward mental health licensure provided.
The City of South Burlington is seeking three energetic,
The manager reports a five-member City Council in a traditional coun team-oriented and to experienced individuals to fill our Seasonal Parks Maintenance Assistant positions the employees a form of government. The manager supervises 127 with full-time Works Department. andPublic seasonal employees, develops and administers a $13 million operati oversees personnel, financial, matte This is all a seasonal position thatdepartmental, starts in May and and labor-relations ends in jobearly description available at www.sburl.com under “Employment Oppo October.isThis position will assist our full-time staff with landscape maintenance, trail maintenance, park
maintenance open space land. The Council willand select a manager to be an active partner in community discussions and tohigh provide leadership formulation Qualifications: School Diplomainorpolicy GED, two years’ and impleme landscaping experience, to lift upof toassisting 50 Burlington’s next manager and willthe faceability the challenge the Counc out oral instructions and perform manualwith the comm thepounds, growth carry that comes from being a desirable community labor under various weather conditions. preserve open space.
To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, www.wcmhs.org.
Please provide letter, resume three The salary range aiscover $95,000-$115,000 andand is commensurate with experie references an excellent to: benefits package. A Bachelor’s degree is required; a Maste Human Resource Dept., 575 Dorset St., South administration, business administration or other relevant field is desirabl Burlington, VT 05403, or jladd@sburl.com. previous experience in municipal government is preferred.
Apply through our website or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601. Equal Opportunity Employer
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We are currently hiring a Financial Analyst to join us as a critical member of our finance team. The Financial Analyst will report to the VP of finance and administration and will assist in the budgeting and forecasting processes, maintain information in the accounting system, track expenses and revenues, prepare financial reports, analyze and monitor reports, and perform other duties that the position requires. The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and two to three years of experience in the field.
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Service Coordinator Champlain Community Services is seeking an experienced Service Coordinator with strong clinical and organizational skills to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a fast-paced, team-oriented position. Requirements: bachelor’s degree in the human service field, QDDP, demonstrated leadership, and two years experience with the VT Developmental Disabilities System of Care. This is a rare opportunity to join a distinctive developmental service provider agency during a time of growth.
CCS is a progressive, intimate, developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and individual and family relationships.
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North CouNtry PubliC radio Part-time Sales representative North Country Public Radio is seeking a Part-time Sales Representative in the region. To view the complete position description and to apply online, please go to our job opportunities web page at employment.stlawu.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. North Country Public Radio, licensed to St. Lawrence University, is a forwardthinking organization committed to public service.
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Washington County Mental Health Services Administration office is currently seeking an:
Assistant Chief Financial Officer Oversees all accounting functions of the agency, works directly with the CFO, Administrative and Senior Management Teams. Reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer. Will need to be able to read, analyze and interpret complex documents and have the ability to make effective and persuasive presentations to senior management, groups of employees or representatives from funding sources. Strong computer literacy to include the use of Word, Excel and Outlook. Knowledge of, or ability to learn, PowerPoint, Access and Multiview Accounting Software. Good organizational skills are essential. Effective people skills are essential. Ability to maintain confidentiality is critical. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in accounting or related field with extensive accounting training required. Minimum of five years’ related experience and/or training. Previous supervisory experience is essential.
To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org. Apply through our website or send your resume to: personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601. Equal opportunity employer
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The National Museum of the Morgan Horse, located in Middlebury, is seeking a full-time
museum director
Clinical Therapist
20 hours-per-week, contracted, grant-funded position HOPE Works is looking for a licensed clinical social worker to join its direct services team providing support to survivors of sexual violence in Chittenden County. The contractor position offers the opportunity to develop a new clinical program at HOPE Works, and involves providing trauma counseling to youth (13 to 24) and adults, facilitating clinical support groups for youth survivors, and providing clinical supervision to social work students and staff. HOPE Works is dedicated to ending sexual violence through healing, outreach, prevention and empowerment. Our ideal candidate has excellent clinical skills, knowledge of sexual violence dynamics and a strong background in providing trauma-informed, empowerment based mental health services. Interested candidates should submit cover letter and resume by March 20 to: Kiona Heath, PO Box 92 Burlington, VT 05402 or email kiona@hopeworksvt.org EOE; people from diverse communities encouraged to apply.
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Ask for a copy of the complete job description, or send a résumé, letters of interest and salary requirements to Julie Broadway, Executive Director, American Morgan Horse Association, 4066 Shelburne Rd., Suite 5, Shelburne VT, 05482.
Execdir@morganhorse.com
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We are an independently owned, certified organic seed company committed to quality, customer 10:13 AM service and healthy communities. We are hiring the following positions:
Wholesale Accounts Supervisor Quality Control Supervisor Wholesale Fulfillment Leader For detailed job descriptions, please visit: highmowingseeds.com/ job-opportunities No phone calls, please.
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Dispatcher/switchboarD operator (Full-time Nights) Saint Michael’s College is seeking a full-time Dispatcher/Switchboard Operator for Public Safety/Fire & Rescue Departments to dispatch radio calls and operate the College switchboard. All emergency calls are received for SMC campus and the surrounding community. Must be able to multitask and prioritize emergency calls, alarms, calls for service and college switchboard calls efficiently, be able to deal tactfully and calmly with a wide variety of callers and be able to work flexible hours for this 24/7 operation. Dispatch, switchboard, emergency services experience desirable, but we will provide training for a motivated and dependable person with demonstrated aptitude. Full medical and dental coverage, paid time off, retirement and outstanding tuition benefits. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. For full job description and to apply online, go to smcvt.interviewexchange.com.
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The Energy Action Network, focused on transforming Vermont’s energy system to one based on efficiency and renewables, is seeking candidates for our Communications Manager. This position will help lead EAN’s network-based communications strategies, including our “Brighter Vermont” initiative. Responsibilities will include development of social media tools, website support, graphic design, publications, internal network communications, and logistical support for EAN’s meetings and organizational systems. EAN approaches large-scale social change through collaboration among diverse interest groups. A detailed position description can be found on EAN’s website (eanvt.org). Please send a letter of interest and resume to acolnes@eanvt.org by March 27, 2015.
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VENDING ROUTE DRIVERS We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals. Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 pounds and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with benefits. Apply in person or online at: Farrell Vending Services 405 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 www.farrellvending.com
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Data Architect Evolution HCM Technology is innovating the way organizations manage their most important asset — their people. By combining revolutionary SaaS technology and expert services, Evolution HCM Technology delivers an all-inclusive, scalable and high-value human capital management software that gives our customers a substantial business advantage. We are one of the fastest growing technology companies in our home state of Vermont, and are proud to employ a team of dynamic innovators from around the globe. We are currently hiring a Data Architect to maintain, design and develop databases for our human capital management system. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and grow with new technologies that will help shape the future direction of product software development at iSystems. Enjoy creative freedom in an established company but on a new project with a startup feel that embraces new technologies. The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field, expert understanding of data and database design, and six-plus years of experience in writing, troubleshooting and optimizing database designs and queries. To view the complete job description and to apply online, please visit evolutionhcm.com.
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SUMMER JOBS – APPLY NOW! BURLINGTON PARKS, RECREATION & WATERFRONT PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME SEASONAL POSITIONS ($10.10 - $15.83/hOUR) We are now accepting applications for the following positions: Day Camp Directors/Counselors Landscaping/Horticulture Maintenance Basketball Camp Counselors Park Attendants/Event Assistants Track & Field Counselors Beach/Program (WSI) Lifeguards Waterfront Security Guards Dockmasters/Marina Staff Rec Nutrition Counselors Gate Attendants Playmobile Director/Assistant Campground & Beach Staff To apply, send a completed City of Burlington Application to: HR Dept., 179 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, VT 05401. To obtain an application, please see our website: burlingtonvt.gov/hr/jobs. EOE. WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
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Alpine Shop Sales Manager Equipment
Director to manage small, seasonal museum. Duties to include opening to the public, facilitating programs and exhibits, supervising volunteers, and housekeeping. Part-time, approximately 20-25 hours per week, late May to October (with potential for holiday hours in early December). Saturday hours required. Send letter and resume with names of three references to Darcie Abbene, Secretary, Morristown Historical Society, at djensvold@gmail.com by April 24.
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Barista/ Counter Staff August First Bakery is growing and needs a few new counter/ barista people to join our team.
Energetic, enthusiastic manager wanted to lead ski, snowboard, bike and tennis sales team at the Alpine Shop in South Burlington. Qualifications: 3+ years retail management experience, MasterFit certified bootfitter, positive outlook, passion for the outdoors and excellent interpersonal skills. Benefits include 401(k), merchandise discounts and free skiing at many area resorts.
Full- and part-time positions available. Duties include taking orders from customers, ringing them up on a touch-screen POS, and making espresso drinks. Our bakery is very busy, so the ability to work hard, accurately, and quickly while having fun is critical!
Send résumé and cover letter to team@alpineshopvt.com.
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Employment Opportunities at Northfield Savings Bank
3/9/15 10:43 AM
FuLL-time Warehouse position – seconD shiFt Northfield Savings Bank is looking for experienced individuals to join our team for exciting career opportunities including:
Human Resources Benefits & Payroll Administrator: Responsible for processing semi-monthly payroll and handling employee benefits information. Financial Analyst: Prepare monthly financial statements, review reconciliations, develop financial models, and be responsible for regulatory reporting and various tax filings.
Department – Social Work Open until 3/23/2015 uvmjobs.com/postings/14697
Additional career opportunities also available! Please visit the careers page of our website at nsbvt.com for more details and qualifications required. Northfield Savings Bank is one of the nation’s few remaining mutual, depositor-owned organizations, and one of the largest banks headquartered right here in Vermont. We offer competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, a matching 401(k), and much more.
Email submissions are preferred at janet.kinney@nsbvt.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC
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Child Welfare Training Lead
Both positions will be located in a wonderful new facility in Berlin, Vermont, just off exit 7 of Interstate 89, upon completion of the new NSB Operations Center.
Cover letters and resumes may be sent to: Janet Kinney, Recruiter Northfield Savings Bank P.O. Box 347 Northfield, VT 05663
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Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree in Social Work or closely related field and three years’ supervisory experience required.
Desirable Qualifications: Experienced trainer in evidence-informed/based curricula specific to child welfare providers and caregivers. Demonstrated experience in curriculum development and training of trainers. Experience with program evaluation. Experience working in child protection, youth justice, substance abuse and adoption. The University of Vermont is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Applications from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.
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Must function in whatever capacity required to maintain a smooth, efficient and safe warehouse. Seeking attention to detail under time constraints, honesty, neatness, organizational ability, willingness to work other than daytime hours, high school education or possession of comparable skills. Full benefits package, shift differentials, holiday and vacation pay. Competitive wages. Send resumes to: aileen Wagner, 91 catamount Drive, milton, Vt 05468, aileen@bddow.com, 893-5105.
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Receptionist/Intake Specialist Winooski Housing Authority, a progressive manager and developer of affordable housing, seeks a full-time Receptionist/Intake Specialist to join our team. Must be motivated, detailoriented, possess customer service experience and have the capacity to manage multiple priorities. Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please send your résumé to Debbie at dhergenrother@winooskihousing.org, or mail in, or stop in for an application to WHA, 83 Barlow Street, Winooski, VT 05404. Attn: Debbie. Application deadline is 3/16/15. EOE.
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Full-Time Dishwasher Our dishwasher will perform a variety of services in the kitchen area such as dishwashing, basic food prep, linen prep, food storage, general kitchen cleaning and, as assigned, they may also perform bus services in the main or auxiliary dining rooms. If you have high standards of service and a strong desire to learn, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146.
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Shelburne FarmS SeaSonal PoSitionS and Job Fair Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating for a sustainable future. Our campus is a 1,400-acre working farm, forest and National Historic Landmark, located on the shores of Lake Champlain in Shelburne.
The Radio Vermont Group has an opening for the Director of Sales (DOS) position. The DOS is charged with hiring, training, supervising and inspiring radio sales account executives. The DOS will manage group and individual sales plans and establish local, agency and political rates. In addition to other duties, the DOS will coordinate with the Digital Services, Programming and Traffic/Billing Departments to develop productive revenue streams from a variety of channels; coordinate contests/promotions with the respective program directors; develop sales tools and ratings analysis to educate prospective clients and agencies; establish group, station and individual sales goals; manage account lists and adjudicate conflicts and work with A/Es to ensure timely collections and cash flow. Successful candidate will have direct sales background, experience managing a sales team, and proven record of hiring and training sales staff. Prior broadcasting background preferred and/or experience in comparable sales/marketing environments. The DOS will report directly to the ownership. Please send resume to Eric Michaels, Executive VP, Radio Vermont Group, P.O. Box 550, Waterbury, VT 05676 or email in confidence to emichaels@radiovermont.com. No calls, please. RVG is an equal opportunity employer All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
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If so, we currently have multiple BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONIST positions available. Work with children and youth while implementing an individualized behavior plan in school, day treatment and/or community settings with support from a fun, dynamic and creative team. Training, advancement opportunity and excellent benefits await you. To learn more or to read our complete job descriptions, visit our website, www.wcmhs.org.
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A successful Montpelier landmark for almost 33 years, Julio’s is looking for a Chef to keep our large base of very loyal customers happy and bring in new ideas to increase that customer base. We have a solid BOH and FOH staff and a completely renovated kitchen. The perfect candidate will have a passion for Mexican food, enjoy cooking on the line, support great camaraderie between the FOH and BOH, have a head and heart for systems and sanitation and be part pirate ship captain/part business person. If you are looking for an opportunity to have a life with reasonable hours, good pay and vacation after six months, please send your resume by mail to John Mayfield, c/o Julio’s Cantina, 54 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 or by email to john@julioscantina.com.
Do you exude positive energy? Are you looking for a challenge? Like to play? Want to work with children/youth?
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We are in the process of hiring for the following seasonal positions: The Inn at Shelburne Farms • Front Desk Agents • Reservationists • Front Desk Hosts • Housekeepers • Dining Room Servers Special Events • Event Support Staff • Bar Staff Welcome Center • Guest Service and Sales Associate We are also holding a Job Fair on Saturday March 14th, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Shelburne Farms Welcome Center. 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne VT Please see our website shelburnefarms.org/about/join-our-team for additional information regarding our job openings and joining our amazing team.
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Chicago business making potato dumplings. She’s re-created the starchy treats for this dish, serving them fried golden with crisp breadcrumbs alongside the chicken breast. The combination has no real raison d’être, but each element is so delectably full of flavor that there’s no argument against it, either. By the time a diner starts thinking the dish may be too much of a good thing, the relatively small portion will have disappeared. I ended my final review meal with a chocolate tart. Like the brownie, it was served warm from the oven, but this dessert was covered in a fat dollop of homemade whipped cream and chewy Bourbon cherries. Once again, it tasted and looked like a far more expensive dessert at a far fancier restaurant. It’s our good fortune that Phanthakhot and Bush have joined forces to bring Burlington such a fine, thoughtful casual restaurant. In fact, it’s fair to say that Babe’s is the best restaurant to open in town in years. Just as Phanthakhot isn’t shy with salt and spice, diners shouldn’t be leery of trying this new chapter in the saga of Asian fusion. m
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is a bit charred, as mine was. A dousing of habanero maple syrup certainly didn’t hurt. To add to the Mr. Breakfast-fordinner proceedings, we sipped an Orange Macaroon with the pancakes. Featuring fresh-squeezed OJ, coconut milk and rum, the drink tasted like a tropical Creamsicle. Babe’s burger, served on buttery focaccia from nearby Barrio Bakery, was not as creative as the pancakes but was still eminently satisfying. I wasn’t asked how I like my burger cooked, but the pink medium I got seemed like a good, moist middle ground. A thick spackle of garlic mayo served as a strong foundation for the other flavors. My one complaint was that, with the tower of thick bread, beef, lettuce, tomato and crisp bacon, the burger was too tall to eat comfortably. I cut it up. Fries were also served in prodigious quantity. Though they were crisp, well salted and covered in herbs, I didn’t come close to finishing them. The signature dish at Butch + Babe’s is a take on Phanthakhot’s mother’s marinated chicken. Jintana’s Chicken is a juicy Misty Knoll Farms breast encircled with cilantro-rich sauce. Beneath lies chard, stewed tender and full of garlic in the style of one of the restaurant’s African line cooks. Thailand and Somalia aren’t the only countries contributing flavors to Jintana’s Chicken. Bush’s eastern European grandparents had a popular
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get it. I’ve been on a few trips and it’s popped up and I’ve been like, “Yes! It’s all your fault!” SD: How did you find this space? BE: One day I just happened to refresh a real estate page on my phone. This place popped up, and it was set up exactly the way I needed it to be. I hadn’t even thought about Winooski, but when this popped up, I was like, Winooski, oh my God! SD: This was in 2013? BE: Yeah. All this new stuff was happening, and it’s set up perfectly for collaboration, not competition. I loved every bit of it. The day I found this, I called my wife to see if she could stop by and check it out, because she worked right down the road. The landlord was there, and she told him about my idea and he loved it. This was a Friday. I met with him on Monday, and he was like, “Let’s go see the city managers.” That spring, [the brewery] really started consuming me, keeping me up at night. I had all these journal entries from, like, three in the morning — I was not sleeping, and planning everything out. I had come up with the name and the logo [with the phases of the moon]. And I walk into the Winooski city office,
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SD: When you barrel-ferment, how much do you sacrifice since you can’t tightly control the temperature and what happens in the barrels? BE: I don’t worry too much, because the beers that ferment in barrels are fermenting with my saison strain [of yeast], which likes hotter temperatures. Most of the time I’m more concerned about it being too low of a temperature. If it’s below 70 degrees, that yeast doesn’t really move. So when I pull the beer off the kettle, I try to get it in there faster than I normally would, so that yeast can just get going with it.
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SD: What ingredients are you excited about right now? BE: Yeast. It’s what makes or breaks a beer. Brewers talk a lot about caring for their yeast, and when I started talking to my friend at the bakeshop, he had this whole different perspective. He was like, “I torture the yeast. I punish it, and pull only the strongest ones out, and that’s what I use for the bread.” So he’s been a big influence, thinking about what I could do. Plus, he has done a lot of capturing yeasts from outside: on grapevines, off of hops. Part of [the Misery Loves Co.] beer process was that I pulled off some wort and took it over to the bakeshop. We left it out to inoculate it and ferment the beer with their yeast. We thought of that a little too late — it takes some time for the yeast to build up and for the colonies to get going. But the flavors you can get from the yeasts are just crazy.
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SD: Where does Four Quarters fit into the larger picture of the Vermont beer scene? BE: I’ve always been a big fan of Belgian beers. These are the kinds of beer I like to drink, and it’s the kind of beer I like to brew. Vermont doesn’t have a Belgian beer maker, so it made perfect sense for me to do this. People come in and say they like that I’m not doing what everyone else is doing, in terms of the IPAs. I like IPAs, but the hops are in such high demand that it’s impossible to get them. I got some, but another brewer sold them to me because they had a surplus. So that’s the next thing that I’ll brew once we get these beers out. SD: If you could go back a year and have a conversation with yourself when you were just opening, what would you say? BE: Two things have really served me well. One thing is just really trusting my gut, and these guys can testify to that. I’ll send out ideas to them, ask them what they think, and they’ll give me an answer, and I’ll be like, “No. No.” And the other thing is — like walking into the city manager’s office and seeing that stained glass — listen to the signs to let me know that I’m on the right path. m Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com
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Best Medicinal Garden Plants: Heather Irvine of Giving Tree Botanicals accesses the healing side of horticulture when discussing the properties of arnica, angelica and other vegetation. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $13-15; preregister. Info, 224-7100.
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Small BIZ VT Summit: Workshops, vendors and networking opportunities address various aspects of starting and expanding businesses. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, noon-7 p.m. Free; preregister for legal advice. Info, 863-3489, ext. 227.
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HomeShare Vermont Information Session: Those interested in home-sharing programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625. Peer Support Circle: A confidential space allows participants to converse freely without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.
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Green Mountain Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America: Needleand-thread enthusiasts gather to work on current projects. Living/Dining Room, Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255. Knitters & Needleworkers: Crafters convene for creative fun. Colchester Meeting House, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
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AfroLatin Party: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kzomba, kuduro, kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7:158:15 p.m.; party, 8:15-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572.
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Toastmasters of Greater Burlington: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.
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'This Changes Everything' Book Club: Naomi Klein's examination of the tenuous relationship between capitalism and climate change sparks an environmentally focused discourse. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, jeknight@sover.net.
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Dine United: Crêpe lovers fill up on tasty eats, then groove to live tunes by the Josh Panda Band. Partial proceeds benefit the United Way. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 5-11 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0188. Tech Help With Clif: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Tech Tutor Program: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.
fairs & festivals
Luck of the Irish She may be a Grammy Award-winning, nine-time All-Ireland fiddle champion, but Eileen Ivers is not your typical fiddler — right down to her bright blue violin. The child of Irish immigrants, Ivers grew up in the Bronx, N.Y., surrounded by jazz, salsa, funk and flamenco. These musical traditions influence her reinterpretation of her Celtic roots, a unique style equally at home with top orchestras and rock stars including Sting and Patti Smith. The virtuoso behind the forthcoming Beyond the Bog Road turns heads in New Hampshire and in Vermont, where she performs as part of the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival.
film
Community Cinema: 'The Homestretch': Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare's documentary follows three homeless teens struggling to overcome the odds and graduate from high school. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
food & drink
Coffee Tasting: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee prompt side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com.
Wine Tasting: Cheese and bread pair well with newly released Californian cabernet sauvignons. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.
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Burlington Irish Heritage Festival: The best of Ireland comes to the Queen City with music, dance, workshops and presentations. See burlingtonirishheritage.org for details. Various Burlington locations, 6-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, info@burlingtonirishheritage.org.
A Mosaic of Flavor: Syrian Tabbouleh & Kanafe: UVM student Maha Akkeh shares her passion for Middle Eastern cuisine with a demonstration of traditional dishes. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.
Eileen Ivers Thursday, March 12, 7:30 p.m., at Lebanon Opera House in New Hampshire. $2545. Info, 603-448-0400. lebanonoperahouse.org. Friday, March 13, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-40. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org
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Women’s Meet-Up: Ladies of different ages and backgrounds make connections at a networking event featuring Jan Blomstrann, Tiff Bluemle and Andrea Cohen. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 3:30-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347, roxannev@ vbsr.org.
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On the Road Again If ever a band lives up to its name, it’s Yarn. Knitting together rock, country and the blues, the group’s eclectic Americana refuses to adhere to a single genre. Formed in 2007, the Brooklyn-based musicians keep up a relentless touring schedule of more than 150 dates a year. And that’s put them on the musical map. Eight Grammy Award nominations for their sophomore effort, Empty Pockets, secured their status as performers to watch. Led by singer-songwriter Blake Christiana, the sextet stops off in Vermont in support of its most recent album, Shine the Light On.
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among his peers. Three decades later, the comedian is still at it, with writer, actor, activist and entrepreneur added to his list of accolades. This multifaceted approach to comedy has made Tingle a hit with radio, television and film markets. Setting his satirical sights on a wide range of topics, the celebrated humorist delivers sidesplitting material that makes audience members think twice.
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Fitness Boot Camp: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@sover.net. Insight Meditation: A supportive environment fosters a deeper understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694. Lick the Sugar Habit: Holistic health coach Krissy Ruddy presents three simple steps to ditch the sweetener and embrace healthy alternatives. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and delivery. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 & 5-6 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. TangoFlow!: Creator Cathy Salmons leads students in a customized blend of Argentine tango, ballet, modern dance and body awareness. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 345-6687.
kids
After-School Tutoring: Students in grades K through 8 get homework help from St. Michael's College volunteers. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a 30-minute time slot. Info, 878-6956. Become a Puppeteer: Teen volunteer Melissa Lefcourt helps middle schoolers make puppets come alive. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Count Me In! Exploring Math With Your Preschooler: Little ones develop a love of learning through a hands-on introduction to mathematics concepts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.
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Highgate Story Hour: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Lego Club: Youngsters ages 6 and up snap together snazzy structures. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra 'Ah! Cappella' Vocal Quartet: Vocalists wow elementary students with a program ranging from early madrigals to African American spirituals. A Q&A follows. Champlain Elementary School, Burlington, 8:45 a.m.; Edmunds Elementary School, Burlington, 10:15 a.m.; Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10.
language
English as a Second Language Class: Beginners better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: Students sharpen grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
lgbtq
LGBTQ Seniors Group: A monthly planning session for Washington County residents aims to schedule social, educational and social justice events in the area. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. Wade Davis: The openly gay former NFL player discusses his role with the You Can Play Project, an organization dedicated to ending discrimination, sexism and homophobia in sports. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2110.
music
Caitlín Nic Gabhann & Ciarán Ó Maonaigh: The award-winning duo breaks out the fiddle and concertina for a showcase of traditional Irish song and dance. Burlington Violin Shop, 6-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 233-5293. Fiddle Jam: Acoustic musicians gather for a bowand-string session. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182. Song Circle: Community Sing-along: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
sports
Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Kiddos channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
Premier Floor Hockey League: Experienced players take shots in a competitive game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 355-4588.
Moving & Grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
Women's Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.
One-on-One Tutoring: Students in grades 1 through 6 get extra help in reading, math and science. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.
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Story Time & Playgroup: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Teen Tech Week: Extreme Paper Folding: Children ages 10 and up go beyond paper cranes and construct multicolored geometric creations. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Toddler Time: Parents chat over coffee while tykes burn off energy in a supervised environment that encourages artistic expression. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. $8. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.
Arts & Culture Series: Gaming Culture: Lyndon State College professor of animation Robby Gilbert weighs in on contemporary gaming. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Benjamin Kilham: Referencing decades of firsthand experience, the wildlife biologist outlines black bears' habits and habitats. Bradford Academy, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 222-4536. 'Conversations' Series: Fran Stoddard moderates a discussion between Rob Mermin and Linda Wellings, who consider curiosity as experienced through art, spirit and nature. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 985-8686.
theater
‘The Office Plays’: Moxie Productions brings Adam Bock’s comedy about the world of phones and photocopiers to life. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $21.75. Info, 863-5966.
'Orwell in America': Northern Stage presents Joe Sutton's portrayal of George Orwell in the aftermath of World War II. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15-55. Info, 296-7000. 'Slowgirl': After an accident sends a teenager fleeing to her uncle’s Costa Rican retreat, the two are forced to confront their pasts in Greg Pierce’s drama, interpreted by the Vermont Stage Company. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50. Info, 863-5966. 'The Tempest' Audition: The Essex Community Players hold tryouts for a spring production of Shakespeare's tale of revenge and love. Essex Memorial Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, ticket.essexplayers@gmail.com.
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Creative Writing Workshop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.
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Lunch & Learn: Vegetable Gardening 101: Home horticulturalists get growing tips from Lisa Coven. Gardener’s Supply Company, Williston, noon. Free. Info, 658-2433.
business
Brian Haas: The president of VIS Construction Consultants shares tricks of the trade in "Negotiating and Mediating With Clients: Rules of Engagement." Network Performance, South Burlington, 8-9 a.m. $15; free for newcomers. Info, 355-5557. Vermont Consultants Network Meeting: Area professionals exchange ideas and further individual skills development. See vtconsultants.org for details. Network Performance, South Burlington, 8-9:15 a.m. $15; free for first-time guests. Info, 355-5557.
community
Generator Membership Orientation: A guided tour of Burlington's newest maker space highlights facilities, equipment, tools and more. Generator, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10; preregister; limited space. Info, info@generatorvt.com.
conferences
Progress or Posturing? Examining the Progress of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Esteemed presenters consider education, health care, the environment and other international issues. See middlebury.edu for details. Robert A. Jones House, Middlebury College, 4:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5652.
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'This Changes Everything' Book Club: See WED.11, Feldman's Bagels, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, sanschagrins@gmail.com.
Women's Film Festival: Documentaries, features and shorts directed by leading ladies tell compelling stories at this 24th annual cinematic assembly. See womensfreedomcenter.net for details. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 6-9 p.m. $8.50; $35 five-show pass. Info, 257-7364.
food & drink
The Nutritional Magic of Mushrooms: The Ultimate Superfood: Health coach Marie Frohlich dishes out the latest info on fabulous fungi and how they can be used for health and healing. City Market/ Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.
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Beginner Tai Chi for Health & Balance: Students practice a weekly yang short-form series, then wind down with a seated breathing meditation. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $25 per series; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968. Fitness Boot Camp: See WED.11, Cornwall Town Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Postnatal Core: Babies are welcome at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening glutes, abdominals and the pelvic floor. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.11, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m. Weight Loss for Foodies: Holistic health coach Krissy Ruddy shares ways to shed pounds without sacrificing satisfaction. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $8-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Winter Into Spring Lunar Sound Bath Meditation Series: Weekly immersion in the vibrations of didgeridoos, singing bowls, frame drums, flutes, crystals and more alleviates stress and tension. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 540-0186.
holidays
'An Irish Evening: Reading & Discussing James Joyce': A preview to St. Patrick’s Day features Irish-inspired fare and an excerpt of the famed author's Dubliners by president of the College of St. Joseph Richard Lloyd. Rutland Free Library, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 776-5249.
kids
Colchester Preschool Story Time: Tales, crafts and activities arrest the attention of tykes ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Lego Club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire young minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
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Middlebury Preschool Story Time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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Preschool Story Time: Children ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504.
AARP Tax Prep Assistance: Tax counselors straighten up financial affairs for low- and middleincome taxpayers, with special attention to those ages 60 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15, 10, 10:45 & 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-6955.
Castleton International Film Festival: Movie lovers feast their eyes on a diverse lineup of foreign cinema. See castleton.edu for details. Castleton State College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, michael.tablott@castleton.edu. 'Farmland': Offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of young farmers and ranchers, James Moll’s 2014 documentary examines the future of farming in the United States. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-2355.
Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake out their sillies to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
Teen Tech Week: Give It Some Bounce: Kids ages 12 and up use household materials to create bouncy balls. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Vermont Symphony Orchestra 'Ah! Cappella' Vocal Quartet: See WED.11, Charlotte Central School, 8:45 & 9:45 a.m.; Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10.
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Yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
M.a.g.i.c.: MasculinitY anD genDer iDentitY conversation: Open sharing encourages attendees to find common ground. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218.
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Mark laBarr & Margaret FoWle: The Audubon Vermont biologists discuss conservation efforts for golden-winged warblers, a declining bird species living in the Champlain Valley shrublands. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.
French Book cluB: alliance Française: Bibliophiles with a command of French discuss Margaret Papillon's Noirs Préjugés en français. JEM 366, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, victoria@aflcr.org.
music
eileen ivers: Backed by her ensemble, the celebrated Celtic fiddler offers up jigs and more in a bow-and-string clinic. See calendar spotlight. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-45. Info, 603-448-0400. an evening With Matt anD kiM: The Brooklynbased indie duo lives up to its reputation for memorable live shows propelled by nothing more than vocals, drums and keyboards. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20. Info, 540-0406. lenten noon concert series: Music lovers convene for a midday performance. Middlebury St. Stephen's on the Green Episcopal Church, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7200. Yarn: Fronted by singer-songwriter Blake Christiana, the New York-based group delivers toetapping Americana tunes. See calendar spotlight. Vermont Independent School of the Arts, Sharon, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433.
talks
Book Discussion group: Readers engage in a weekly study of Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. North Branch Café, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 552-8105.
theater
national theatre live: Starring Meera Syal, Rufus Norris’ production of Behind the Beautiful Forevers explores life in a slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, India. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 3 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300. ‘the oFFice plaYs’: See WED.11. 'orWell in aMerica': See WED.11. 'sloWgirl': See WED.11. 'the teMpest' auDition: See WED.11.
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aMerican JeWish poetrY: Lit lovers analyze how selected verse relates to Jewish identity and history. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218. Books & Bites: Bibliophiles nosh on light fare while conversing about Mark Slouka's Brewster. Bayside Activity Center, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; bring an appetizer to share. Info, 264-5660. nonFiction Book cluB: Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains inspires conversation about the state of international health care. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. toM siMone: The UVM professor imparts his literary smarts in "Dante, Beyond Inferno." Phoenix Books, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.
Writing For Young aDults: Participants swap ideas and opinions about YA stories penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.
snoW FarM Wine DoWn: Folks welcome the weekend with live music and local beer and wine in a pastoral setting. See snowfarm.com for details. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 372-9463.
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community
Feast together or Feast to go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.
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BallrooM & latin Dancing: salsa: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience is required. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 862-2269. Queen citY contra Dance: Atlantic Crossing dole out live tunes while Adina Gordon calls the steps. Shelburne Town Hall, beginner session, 7:458 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12. Info, 371-9492.
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sip-n-spin: recorDs & Beer tasting: Sound check! Vinyl lovers bond over craft brews and their favorite albums. Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 479-0896.
Burlington irish heritage Festival: See WED.11, noon, 7:30 & 8 p.m.
'cereMonY': Inspired by her travels to northern Mongolia, Sas Carey's documentary examines the role shamans play in remote communities of reindeer herders. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, reception, 7 p.m.; film, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 382-9222. gloBal roots FilM Festival: 'ZaraFa': A boy and an orphaned giraffe form an everlasting bond on a journey from Africa to France in Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie's animated adventure. In French with English subtitles. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-2600. WoMen's FilM Festival: See THU.12.
health & fitness
avoiD Falls With iMproveD staBilitY: A personal trainer demonstrates daily exercises for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.
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Community Vinyasa With Candace: Students of all skill levels deepen the body-mind-breath connection. South End Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. Quit Tobacco: A nonjudgmental support session welcomes those looking to kick the habit. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. Yoga Consult: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
holidays
St. Patrick's Day Dinner: Families get a head start on the holiday at a festive Irish feast with all the trimmings. Barre Congregational Church, 6 p.m. $5-11; preregister. Info, 476-6869.
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Drop-In Story Time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 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: One plus one equals fun! Youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. Family Movie: Finding Neverland stars Johnny Depp as author J.M. Barrie, who finds inspiration for Peter Pan in a family of four fatherless boys. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Middle School Planners & Helpers: Lit lovers in grades 6 to 8 plan cool projects for the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
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Music With Robert: Sing-alongs with Robert Resnik hit all the right notes. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216. Parents Night Out: Moms and dads hit the town while youngsters ages 4 through 11 have fun with arts, crafts, games and pizza, then wind down with a movie. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $30 per child; $10 per additional sibling; preregister. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Stories With Megan: Engaging narratives enthrall budding bookworms ages 2 through 5. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Teen Tech Week: Tiny Food Party: Emerging chefs ages 13 and up make miniature versions of everyday fare, then chow down on their creations. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.
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Duncan Sheik: The Grammy Award winner behind the runaway hit single "Barely Breathing" showcases his lyrical gifts. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $24. Info, 775-0903. Eileen Ivers: See THU.12, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966. An Evening With Matt and Kim: See THU.12. Heliand Consort: The woodwind trio performs classical music from the baroque era through the 20th century in a benefit concert for the Dorothy Alling Library. Williston Old Brick Church, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 878-4918. Slow Jam With Woodbury Strings: Sarah Hotchkiss and John Mowad use fiddle tunes to teach chords and melodies to beginner and intermediate folk musicians. Kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. North End Studio C, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 223-8945.
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Kamikaze Comedy: An evening of improv sees audience suggestions transform into hilarious scenes. Essex Memorial Hall, family show, 6:30 p.m.; adult show, 8:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 578-4200.
Building a Tiny House & Permaculture Gardens on a Budget: A slide show by Erin Keith details the process of constructing an off-thegrid abode complete with eye-catching grounds. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
Nordic Ski Waxing Clinic: Drew Gelinas helps athletes prepare for upcoming cross-country ski marathons. Outdoor Center, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 253-5755. Therapy Dogs of Vermont Doubles Tennis Championship: Players swing their rackets to raise funds for the compassionate canines that lend their services to the statewide organization. See therapydogs.org for details. First In Fitness, Berlin, 5:30 p.m. $20-50; preregister. Info, sbarker@ firstinfitness.com.
talks
Elder Education Enrichment Series: Saint Michael's College professor of sociology Vince Bolduc interprets data in "Vermont Exceptionalism: What Do the Statistics Really Say?" Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Fred Wiseman: The Native American researcher references crop-management systems throughout Vermont in "New Discoveries in Abenaki Agriculture." Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 868-4781.
theater
'Orwell in America': See WED.11. 'Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All': A Johnson State College production of Christopher Durang's Obie Award-winning play celebrates the impact of one nun's teachings on her students. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. 'Slowgirl': See WED.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Office Plays’: See WED.11. 'The Taming of the Shrew': The Twinfield Drama Club stages Shakespeare's comedy about the dynamics of male-female relationships. Twinfield Union School, Plainfield, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3955.
words
Creative Writing Workshop: See WED.11, 10:30 a.m. WORD!CRAFT: Experimental Art Rhymes: Inspired by the theme "All Good Things," wordsmiths sound off to DJed beats at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse. Hardwick Municipal Building, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336, mcmycelium74@gmail.com.
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Burlington Seed Swap: Green thumbs stock up on garden starters at this 5th annual horticultural happening featuring Ron Krupp, author of The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening. Burlington Memorial Auditorium Loft, noon-3 p.m. Free; bring non-GMO seeds to share. Info, 861-4769. Tree Pruning Workshop: John Snell presents tips for arboreal upkeep, then demonstrates his techniques outside. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
art
Oil Pastel Art: Guided by Carol Boucher, participants experiment with the medium's versatility when painting and drawing. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
Jimmy Tingle: The seasoned comedian elicits big laughs with his brand of insightful, intelligent humor. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $20-38. Info, 760-4634.
community
Empty Bowls Fundraiser & Local Food Forum: A simple meal of soup, bread and salad gives way to a discussion of promoting knowledge of local food and making it more accessible. Kingdom Taproom, St. Johnsbury, 5-8 p.m. $10 suggested donation; bring a dish to share. Info, 748-9498. Generator Membership Orientation: See THU.12, 4-5 p.m. Maple 5K Run & Brunch: Folks pound the pavement to raise funds for Rock Point School's maple sugaring program, then refuel with a pancake feast. Rock Point School, Burlington, 8-11 a.m. $10-15. Info, 863-1104. Montpelier Memory Café: People with memory loss bond with their caregivers over music, movement and interactive games. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 229-9630. Shiver Me Shamrocks 5k Fun Run/Walk: Athletes make strides for Wonderfeet Kids Museum, then unwind at an after-party where green is the color of choice. Heritage Family Credit Union, Rutland, registration, noon; race, 1 p.m. $30. Info, 747-2370.
conferences
Northeast Kingdom Veterans Summit: Local vets find community among representatives from more than 50 veteran service organizations and at presentations by esteemed military personnel. See lyndonstate.edu for details. Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 626-6346. Progress or Posturing? Examining the Progress of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: See THU.12, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
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East Asia Seminar Series for Teachers: Educators expand their international knowledge with "Understanding Korea Through Arts" and "The Great China Debate." UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-7985.
Capoeira Workshops & Fundraiser: A blend of martial arts, music and dancing raises funds to bring Mestre Aberrê to Vermont for Jagube Capoeira's 2015 Batizado. North End Studio A, Burlington, 3-11 p.m. $15-55. Info, 272-7239. Raspberry Pi With Raspberry Pie: A computer the size of a credit card? Steve Waite and Chad Merkert demonstrate the device made by Britain’s Raspberry Pi Foundation, then serve up slices of its culinary counterpart. Rutland Free Library, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, rutlandtechclub@gmail.com.
fairs & festivals
Burlington Irish Heritage Festival: See WED.11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sugaring Time Festival: Families fête the season of tapped trees and flowing sap with a wide variety of maple-themed activities. See sugarbush. com for details. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 9 a.m.8:30 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 800-537-8427. Vermont Chili Festival: Hot stuff! Chefs serve up fiery flavors with different varieties of this one-pot meal. Street performers, live music and kids activities round out the spicy soiree. Proceeds benefit the Better Middlebury Partnership and the Vermont Foodbank. Various downtown Middlebury locations, 1-4 p.m. $5-7; free for kids 8 and under. Info, 377-1752.
film
'Home Run': David Boyd's 2013 drama follows a professional athlete's journey from alcohol addiction to recovery. Essex Alliance Church, 4 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 878-8213. 'Omar': Arrested after scaling a separation wall, a Palestinian baker becomes an informant for the Israeli army in Hany Abu-Assad's award-winning drama. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. 'Pirates of Tebenkof': Anthony Naples and Tristan Baribeau's documentary details Alaska's cutthroat salmon-fishing industry. Live music by Michael Nau, Maryse Smithand SnakeFootfollows. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 540-0406.
Contra Dance & Potluck Dinner: Live music propels this traditional New England social dance. All dances are called and taught. Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, potluck, 5:30 p.m.; dance, 6:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 472-5584.
Weekend Movie: The relationship between famed physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife drives a gripping drama. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.
Norwich Contra Dance: Folks in clean-soled shoes move to tunes by Northern Spy and calling by Marcie van Cleave. Tracy Hall, Norwich, workshop, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607.
Woodstock Film Series: Adventurer Jeff Johnson retraces Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins' 1968 journey from California to Chile in 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.
Swing Dance: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382. Swing Dance & Concert: Locals dance the night away to Big Band hits from LC Jazz, featuring singers Liz Cleveland and Tony Panella. Holley Hall, Bristol, 8-10 p.m. $8. Info, 453-5885. Upper Valley Vixens Derbytante Ball: The Roaring Twenties come alive when costumed revelers dress to impress at a benefit for the roller derby dames. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $6-10; BYOB. Info, uv.vixens@gmail. com. 'With Women': Inspired by her personal struggles, Isadora Snapp's emotive choreography addresses birth trauma and postpartum depression. Mature topics and language; not recommended for children. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $10-$15 suggested donation. Info, suzhen13@yahoo.com.
Women's Film Festival: See THU.12, noon-9 p.m.
food & drink
Burlington Winter Farmers Market: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172. Chocolate Tasting: Chocoholics sample confections and discover the six steps involved in evaluating flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. Choose Your Own Spice Blends: Shoppers at the Burlington Winter Farmers Market mix and match custom concoctions to take home. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Middlebury Winter Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. Gymnasium, Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 989-7223.
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Norwich Farmers market: Farmers and artisans offer produce, meats and maple syrup alongside homemade baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. rutlaNd wiNter Farmers market: More than 50 vendors offer produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269. ski VermoNt specialty Food tour: Skiers and riders take a break from the slopes and sample products from local food producers. Killington Resort, 9 a.m. Cost of lift tickets. Info, 223-2439. sugar oN sNow: Folks welcome spring with maple syrup treats, sap-boiling demos, live music and a petting zoo. Palmer's Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054. wiNe tastiNg: Recently released Portuguese reds are the star of the show at a sipping session highlighting emerging winemakers. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.
BurliNgtoN saturday story time: Tots and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Family FuN day: Wee ones and their parents ward off winter doldrums with live entertainment, activities, pizza and more. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 262-3292. kate messNer: The award-winning author delights young readers with spring stories from All the Answers, Rescue on the Oregon Trail and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. middleBury saturday story time: Captivating narratives arrest the attention of little ones. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. oNe-oN-oNe tutoriNg: See WED.11, 9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. saturday drop-iN story time: A weekly selection of music and books engages children of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5664. school oF creatiVe aNd perFormiNg arts summer program iNFormatioN sessioN: Teens get the scoop on intensives in filmmaking, photography, dance and acting. Champlain College, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 800-718-2787.
VermoNt First techNical challeNge champioNship: High schoolers go head to head in an innovative robotics competition. See uvm. edu for details. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. Info, bwilburftc@gmail.com.
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teeN tech week: Brush Bot extraVagaNza: Kiddos ages 12 and up fashion vibrating robots out of a toothbrush, a small motor and a tiny battery, then let their creations loose in an epic maze. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.
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corNed BeeF & caBBage supper: Diners fill up on a traditional St. Patrick's Day feast with all the fixings. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9; takeout available. Info, 877-3150.
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coNcert crawl: Revelers travel in groups of 20 to three different homes, where varying genres of music and matching ethnic eats await. Various Randolph Center locations, 6 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 728-9402.
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r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.11, 9-10 a.m.
story explorers: sugariNg: How does maple sap transform into syrup? Tykes learn about the time-tested tradition, then sample different grades. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.
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catamouNt Bluegrass Jam: Bob Amos leads local musicians in a celebration of local and regional talent featuring Carol Hausner and John Gibbons. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.
elias striNg Quartet: As part of a musical quest to perform and record all of Beethoven's string quartets, the acclaimed foursome interprets opuses 95, 131 and 135. Middlebury College professor of music Larry Hamberlin offers a preconcert lecture at 7 p.m. in Room 221. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. graNd slamBoViaNs: The New York-based band delivers danceable alt-folk and Americana as part of its A Box of Everything tour. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $20-24. Info, 387-0102. iaN ethaN case: Wielding an 18-string, double-neck guitar, the virtuoso dazzles audience members with intricate rhythms. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. maple Jam: The jazz octet enlivens the Adamant Winter Music Series with a cappella arrangements. Adamant Methodist Church, optional potluck, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. $1015. Info, 223-5762. VermoNt symphoNy orchestra masterworks: Jaime Laredo wields his baton in a program of works by Mozart, Ludwig, Schumann and Erik Nielsen, featuring bassoonist William Short. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, preperformance lecture, 7 p.m.; concert, 8 p.m. $9-61. Info, 863-5966.
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Will Patton Ensemble: Gypsy jazz and Brazilian choro music intersect at the Burnham Music Series, courtesy of the seasoned foursome. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7 p.m. $8; free for teens and kids. Info, 388-6863.
outdoors
Bird Monitoring Walk: Experienced birders lead a morning excursion in search of various species in their natural habitats. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. EarthWalk Field Institute: Winter Tree ID: Anika Klem helps nature lovers identify the barks and buds of local vegetation. Hawthorn Meadow, Goddard College, Plainfield, 1-4 p.m. $25 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 454-8500. Hunger Mountain & Waterbury Reservoir Snowshoe: A moderate trek up a rocky trail maintains a moderate pace before heading to the reservoir. Contact trip leader for details. Waterbury Reservoir, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 355-7181.
seminars
Digital Photo Basics: Those with working knowledge of Microsoft Windows learn how to import and edit images from phones and cameras. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
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Green Mountain Derby Dames: The Black Ice Brawlers battle the Bangor Roller Derby in a fast-paced showdown on the flat track. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. $6-10. Info, 878-5545. HowardCenter Curling Challenge: Teams take the ice to raise money for recipients of the organization's services. C. Douglas Cairns Arena, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $600 per fourperson team; free for spectators. Info, 488-6911. Therapy Dogs of Vermont Doubles Tennis Championship: See FRI.13, 10 a.m. Trapp Lager Marathon: Nordic skiers get technical in a two-lap race on one of New England's most challenging courses. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $40-75. Info, 253-5755.
talks
Annie Tiberio Cameron: The nature photographer recounts her trip to Kenya in a narrated slide show. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 223-7861. How to Talk to Kids about Racism: A facilitated discussion group addresses the far-reaching effects of racism and white privilege. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 8632345, ext. 9.
'Orwell in America': See WED.11. 'Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All': See FRI.13. 'Slowgirl': See WED.11, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 'The Taming of the Shrew': See FRI.13. 'Typhoon of Tenderness': Accompanied by guitarist John Gagne, Dennis McSorley delivers a one-man show that traces a life of success to one of darkness and despair. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 657-4189.
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Burlington Writers Workshop Book Club: Bibliophiles exchange ideas about Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. Studio 266, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop. com. Info, 383-8104. Jessie Haas: Sweet stuff! The local author reads and signs Sugaring. Vermont Country Store, Weston, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 362-5950.
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Night Parlor Performance Slam: Folks take the stage with brief works of poetry, prose, comedy, dance and music. Proceeds benefit the Burlington Performance Support Project. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $8-10; free for members. Info, laura.gordon20@gmail.com.
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OK ABC Practice: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world? An open meeting explores these inquiries. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684. Village University: The Natural Landscape and Resources of Jericho: Members of the town's trails committee and energy task force give updates on current and future projects. Jericho Community Center, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 899-2366.
dance
Balkan Folk Dancing: Louise Brill and friends organize people into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. $6; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020. 'With Women': See SAT.14, 4-5 p.m.
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AARP Tax Prep Assistance: See THU.12, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 865-7211. Geshe Sherab: The Tibetan Buddhist monk outlines the principles of tantra in "Transforming Coal Into Diamonds." A Q&A follows. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Donations; preregister. Info, 633-4136.
fairs & festivals
Antique Appraisal Fair: Expert appraisers determine the value of art, jewelry, books, furniture and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Proceeds benefit the Oxbow Community Scholarship for Excellence. Oxbow High School, Bradford, 1-3:30 p.m. $4 per appraisal. Info, 866-3320.
Chandler Film Society: A pair of young lovers trigger a series of calamities in Kenneth Branagh's 1993 cinematic interpretation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 6 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204. Women's Film Festival: See THU.12, noon-9 p.m.
food & drink
Authentic Ethiopian Night: Mulu Tewelde and Alganesh Michael serve up traditional African dishes. Call for details. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister; limited space. Info, 540-0406. Joys of Sourdough Baking: Heike Meyer of Bee Sting Bakery breaks down the steps of making naturally leavened loaves with a fermented culture. Participants take a starter home. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700. Pancake Breakfast: Bring on the syrup! Neighbors catch up over stacks of flapjacks and eggs and sausage. Grace Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5923. Ski Vermont Specialty Food Tour: See SAT.14, Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 9 a.m. Cost of lift tickets. Info, 223-2439.
Dimanches French Conversation: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
music
Hinesburg Artist Series 19th Anniversary Concert: Baritone Gary Moreau and trumpeter Jim Duncan join a performance of works by Carmen, Purcell and Mark Hayes. Hinesburg St. Jude Catholic Church, 4:30 p.m. $12-18. Info, 863-5966. Maple Jam: As part of the Westford Winter Music Series, the jazz octet performs a cappella hits and Big Band favorites in multipart harmonies. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4028. The Patricia Julien Project: Led by the flutist, the jazz quartet interweaves swing, funk and rock into a concert of originals and covers. UVM Southwick Ballroom, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, patricia.julien@uvm.edu. Sound Bath: Earth Gong, Didgerioo & Singing Bowls: Participants tap into the healing properties of intentional soundscapes. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, stevescuderi@gmail.com. Timothy Cummings & Guests: Pete Sutherland, Dominique Dodge and others join the bagpiper in an evening of spirited tunes from Ireland and Appalachia. Wilson Hall, McCullough Social Space, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra Family Concert: Led Ry by Lou Kosma, chamber musicians an Ma Sugar on Snow: See SAT.14. interpret music from Spain in "Espana!" c Do n a d l Barre Opera House, 2 p.m. $5-15; $32 per Vermont Maple Breakfast: From panfamily. Info, 476-8188. cakes to pulled pork, maple-inspired fare hits all the palate points. Georgia Mountain Maples, Milton, 8 outdoors a.m.-1 p.m. $6.95-12.95. Info, 363-0607. Mount Mansfield North Ridge Ascent: health & fitness Crampons are a must for a difficult six-mile hike that gains 2,800 in elevation. Contact trip leader Hot Yoga Burlington Grand Reopening: See for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 9 SAT.14. a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 343-8175. Nia With Linda: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements sports inspire participants to explore their potential. Catamount Trail Classic: Backcountry South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, trails between Bolton Valley Resort and Trapp 522-3691. Family Lodge offer experienced cross-country Sunday Sangha: Community Ashtanga Yoga: skiers a taste of adventure. Proceeds benefit Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to the Catamount Trail Association. See calendar breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, spotlight. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, check-in, 7:30 Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. a.m.; shuttle to Bolton Valley, 8 a.m.; ski, 9 a.m. Info, 224-6183. $50-500; preregister. Info, 864-5794. f
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Bolton After Dark: When the sun sets, skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive nightskiing terrain, then unwind with ski and snowboard films. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 4 p.m. $19 lift tickets; cash bar. Info, 434-3444.
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Benefit Rail Jam: Athletes showcase their skills to support the Molly Rowlee Fund for families with children undergoing treatment for cancer. Smugglers' Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, registration, noon-1 p.m.; rail jam, 2 p.m. $25. Info, 332-6841.
The Met Live in HD Series: Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez transport viewers to medieval Scotland in a broadcast production of Rossini's La Donna del Lago. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 1-4:30 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.
Maple Festival on the Green: From sap to syrup, Vermont's liquid gold steals the show at this annual family-friendly fête. Middletown Springs Historical Society, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 235-2376.
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The Logger: Fiddler Patrick Ross joins entertainer Rusty DeWees in a mashup of music, comedy and acting in "Spring Has Sprung." Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 476-8188.
Burlington Irish Heritage Festival: See WED.11, 1-6 p.m.
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Legal & Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia: An overview of wills, powers of attorney and health care proxies helps folks prepare for the future. See vitlink.org for details. Various locations statewide, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 800 -272-3900.
'Ground Hog Opry': Woodchuck Theatre Company cures cabin fever with a zany production of skits, songs and stories by local performers. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 877-6737.
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Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro 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, bill@ vermontcam.org.
theater
kids
ChildLight Yoga for Kids: Little ones ages 4 through 8 hit the mat and learn a sequence of stretches. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. 'Cinderella' Auditions: Budding thespians ages 7 through 18 vie for spots in Chandler Center for the Arts' summer production about ugly stepsisters, fairy godmothers and glass slippers. Email for details. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph. Prices vary; preregister. Info, betsycantlin@comcast.net. Kids Yoga: Strength and balance exercises encourage focus and relaxation in yogis ages 3 through 7. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. Northwaters & Langskib Summer Programs Information Session: Adventurers ages 10 through 17 and their parents learn about canoe trips through the heart of Ontario's vast Temagami Wilderness. See northwaters.com for details. Private residence, North Ferrisburgh, 4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 866-458-9974. Russian Playtime With Natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
Therapy Dogs of Vermont Doubles Tennis Championship: See FRI.13, 10 a.m.
talks
David Bennett: The historian discusses controversial secret negotiations between Ethan Allen and British general Frederick Haldimand during the Revolutionary War. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403.
theater
Brandon Town Players Audition: Thespians ages 16 and up try out for roles in the organization's May production of a live radio show. Brandon Senior Citizens Center, Forestdale, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 247-6720. 'Orwell in America': See WED.11, 5 p.m. 'Slowgirl': See WED.11, 2 p.m. 'The Taming of the Shrew': See FRI.13, 2 p.m. 'Three In the Wilderness': Puppetry, music and narration make a magical combination in a mystery play by Brattleboro's Winged Productions. Burlington St. Paul's Cathedral, 7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 864-0471. 'Typhoon of Tenderness': See SAT.14.
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words
Jessie Haas: See SAT.14, Vermont Country Store, Rockingham, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 362-5991. Radio Play WoRksHoP: Wordsmiths explore the art of writing narrative to be broadcast over the airwaves. Studio 266, Burlington, noon. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.
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CRaFteRNooN: FuN WitH stRiNg: A themed activity motivates youngsters ages 6 and up to create. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420. kids yoga: A fun-filled class for students ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. MusiC WitH PeteR: preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.
suzaNNe eikeNbeRRy: The nonprofit consultant helps board members better understand their financial responsibilities. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, suzanne. eikenberry@gmail.com.
oNe-oN-oNe tutoRiNg: See WED.11.
community
toddleR tiMe: See WED.11.
'staR WaRs' Club: May the force be with you! Fans of George Lucas' intergalactic epic bond over common interests. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
FRieNds oF bRoWNell MeetiNg: Locals learn about the organization's plans for the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
WillistoN PaJaMa stoRy tiMe: Kids in pJs bring their favorite stuffed animals for stories with Abby Klein, a craft and a bedtime snack. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7555.
dance
music
Meditative CiRCle daNCiNg: Uplifting music enlivens ancient and modern international choreographies in a welcoming class for teens, adults and seniors. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3:45-5 p.m. Free. Info, 978-424-7968. salsa MoNdays: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and the cha cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.
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aaRP tax PReP assistaNCe: See THU.12. teCH HelP WitH CliF: See WED.11, 6-7 p.m.
film
'MotHeRs oF bedFoRd': Female inmates in New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility struggle to remain connected to their children in Jenifer McShane's 2011 documentary. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.
games
health & fitness
avoid Falls WitH iMPRoved stability: See FRI.13. begiNNeR tai CHi FoR HealtH & balaNCe: See THU.12, 5:15-6:45 p.m. body Reboot CaMP FoR NeW MoMs: Using timed intervals, body weight and other tools, an innovative class helps mothers get fit. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.
PReNatal yoga & baRRe: See WED.11. R.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.11.
holidays
Make it!: lePReCHauN tRaPs: Resourceful tinkerers in grades K to 5 craft contraptions to catch the elusive creatures. Adult companion required for ages 8 and under. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
kids
Coed FlooR HoCkey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided; preregister; limited space. Info, gbfloorhockey@ gmail.com.
talks
eldeR eduCatioN eNRiCHMeNt seRies: Vermont public Radio reporter peter Hirschfeld talks politics in "State of play in the 2015 Legislative Session." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. MaRk tHeRMaNseN & JeRRy FRaNCis: The caretakers of Shelburne Farms' two operating tower clocks discuss the history, function and inner workings of giant timepieces. McClure Education Center, Shelburne Farms, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, registration@shelburnefarms.org.
theater
'tyPHooN oF teNdeRNess': See SAT.14.
words
adult WRitiNg gRouP: Wordsmiths practice their craft in a monthly meet-up with fellow lit lovers. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. CReative WRitiNg WoRksHoP: See WED.11. sHaPe & sHaRe liFe stoRies: prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which are crafted into narratives and shared with the group. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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Feast togetHeR oR Feast to go: See FRI.13. tuesday voluNteeR NigHts: Folks 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.
Meditative CiRCle daNCiNg: See MON.16, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 978-424-7968.
Adults
taNgo PRaCtiCe sessioN: Dancers looking to master the Argentine tradition focus on their footwork in a weekly class. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 617-7807701, maya@newcitygalerie.org.
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environment
12 and under
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CleaN WateR day: Eco-minded folks advocate for improving the water quality of Lake Champlain. Room 11, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4099.
Tickets available at the door
film
CastletoN iNteRNatioNal FilM Festival: See THU.12.
864-0471 • www.stpaulscathedralvt.org
'lost HoRizoN': When a plane crashes in the Himalayas, its passengers are rescued by people from a mysterious Eden-like valley in Frank Capra's2v-cathedralofstpaul031115.indd 1 1937 drama. Film House, Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018.
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games
gaMiNg FoR teeNs & adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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health & fitness
aCtive seNioR boot CaMP: participants break a sweat while improving strength, flexibility and cardiovascular health. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.
March
dRoP-iN yoga: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. FitNess boot CaMP: See WED.11, 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $14. Info, 343-7160. geNtle yoga WitH Jill laNg: Students get their stretch on in a supportive environment. personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
THU 12 DANTE, BEYOND INFERNO 6:30PM Join UVM professor Tom Simone to
discover the importance and relevance of Dante beyond Inferno at this free event.
SAT 14 KATE MESSNER: SPRING STORIES 2PM FOR YOUNG READERS All ages are welcome to this free event.
THU 19 6:30PM THU 26 6:30PM
PETER SHEA: VT TROUT PONDS Get ready for spring! Ticketed event.
RON KRUPP: THE WOODCHUCK RETURNS TO GARDENING Calling all gardeners! Ticketed event.
guided PaRtNeR tHai bodyWoRk: Lori Flower of Karmic Connection teaches techniques that create relaxation and personal connection. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:307:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
SAT 28 JAMES KOCHALKA: GLORKIAN 2PM WARRIOR EATS ADVENTURE PIE
iNtRo to yoga: Newcomers discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
WED 1 MATT DE LA PEÑA: THE LIVING 7PM De la Peña will discuss his new young
Pee-Wee Pilates: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. PReNatal yoga & baRRe: See WED.11, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m.
holidays
iRisH stoRies: Little ones ages 6 and up celebrate St. patrick's Day with tales and legends from the Emerald Isle. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. st. PatRiCk's day Meal & PReseNtatioN: A spread of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and Irish soda bread complements a discussion of Irish immigrants in mid-19th-century Vermont by historian Vince Feeney. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1 p.m. Free; $7-9 for meal. Info, 223-2518.
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April adult book at this free event - his first open-to-the-public event in Vermont!
THU 9 TERRY GALLOWAY: 7PM MEAN LITTLE DEAF QUEER
Terry Galloway, a deaf, queer writer & performer, will discuss her memoir. Ticketed event.
THU 16 POETRY FEST 7PM Celebrate National Poetry Month with Neil
Shepard, David Cavanagh, and Carol Potter. Ticketed event.
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THU 23 TIM HAYES: RIDING HOME 7PM Hayes will discuss the power of horses to heal at this free event.
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aliCe iN NoodlelaNd: Tykes get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
sports
Cathedral Church of St. Paul 2 Cherry St., Burlington
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WHat is FasCia?: Structural integrator Irvin Eisenberg outlines how this under-researched connective tissue affects the body, then presents exercises for safer movement. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $7-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
tHiNgs tHat MatteRed: A weekly class with Bob Mayer highlights artifacts that changed the world in unusual ways and contributed to major developments in human history. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:45-7 p.m. $15-25. Info, 864-0218.
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 7 P.M.
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FitNess boot CaMP: See WED.11, New Haven Town Hall, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.
seminars
iNtRo to tRibal belly daNCe: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.
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tRivia NigHt: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
Mad RiveR CHoRale oPeN ReHeaRsal: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its June concert, "I Hear America Singing." Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781.
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kids
Baby & Toddler Story Time: A Mother Goosebased morning features rhymes, songs and stories. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Creative Tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Highgate Story Hour: See WED.11. Knitting for Kids: Youngsters use looms to create colorful hats and eye-catching flower brooches. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
theater
Book Discussion: Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night inspires conversation among readers. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
Preschool Story Hour: Puppet Show!: Kiddos up to age 6 embark on colorful adventures with themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.
Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.
Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: See WED.11. Story Time for Babies & Toddlers: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Tech Tuesdays: Tinkerers tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. SEVENDAYSvt.com
Rick Wolff: The economist crunches numbers in “Capitalism Hits the Fan II.” First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5630.
Preschool Music: Kids ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.
Story Explorers: Colors: Where have all the vibrant hues gone? Children learn about seasonal shades and experiment with a rainbow-themed activity. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.
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Jillian Kilborn: The wildlife biologist updates nature lovers on the status of American marten and Canada lynx in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 4:30-6 p.m. $5. Info, 723-6551.
'Orwell in America': See WED.11.
Read to a Dog: Lit lovers bond with a congenial canine from Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.
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Alyssa Bennett: The small-mammal biologist imparts her knowledge of Vermont's nine bat species as part of the Natural Marshfield Series. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
Music With Mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains wee ones and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
Preschool Story Time & Craft: Tykes ages 3 through 5 embark an exploration of silly tales. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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talks
Toddler Story Time: Young 'uns 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. Youth Media Lab: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
language
'La Causerie' French Conversation: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. Pause-Café French Conversation: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
'Typhoon of Tenderness': See SAT.14.
words
WED.18 art
Draw & Sip: Budding Picassos loosen up with a glass of wine, then sketch away under the tutelage of illustrator Evan Chismark. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. $35-40; for ages 21 and up. Info, 253-8358. The Practice Series: Drink & Draw Burlesque: Artists interpret the poses of a live burlesque model in this creative twist on a traditional sketching session. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $18-24. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.
business
Kelley Marketing Meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.
community
Community Dinner: Diners get to know their neighbors at a low-key, buffet-style meal organized by the Winooski Coalition. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30 p.m. Free; children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult; transportation available for seniors. Info, 655-4565. Meet & Greet With Brownell Library Trustees: Library patrons go beyond the stacks during a fireside Q&A session. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Men's Group: Participants meet to support each other, socialize and become more involved in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, every other Wednesday, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. Peer Support Circle: See WED.11.
Women's Leadership Council: Area professionals join Anne Mosle of the Aspen Institute, who presmontréal ents "Building an Intergenerational Cycle for Opportunity: Women 'Hosanna': When a Cleopatra Leading the Way." Elley-Long impersonator returns home from Music Center, St. Michael's College, a Halloween party, she must face r Colchester, 4:30-7 p.m. $100; preregisher identity and resulting inseCo ne ur ur T t es y o ter. Info, 861-7831, ruthann@unitedcurities in this Tableau D'Hôte Theatre f Ja cly n waycc.org. production. MainLine Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 514-849-3378.
crafts
Knitters & Needleworkers: See WED.11, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
dance
AfroLatin Party: See WED.11.
environment
'This Changes Everything' Book Club: See WED.11, Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, jeknight@sover.net. Vermont Workers' Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, aprolman@gmail.com.
etc.
Tech Help With Clif: See WED.11.
film
Community Cinema: 'MAKERS: Women in Space': Trailblazers in the U.S. space program inspire the next generation of female astronauts, engineers and mathematicians in this segment of the PBS series. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. 'Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie, Part 3': "Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution" highlights influential figures in the state's history. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. Frog Hollow Winter Film Series: 'Tim's Vermeer': Inventor Tim Jenison attempts to uncover the methods of painter Johannes Vermeer in the documentary Tim's Vermeer. A discussion with dug Nap and Val Hurd follows. Feldman's Bagels, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458.
food & drink
Coffee Tasting: See WED.11. Wine Tasting: Newly released reds from the south of France please discerning palates. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.
games
Tabletop Gaming Night: Players ages 14 and up test out Settlers of Catan, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering and more. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
health & fitness
Fitness Boot Camp: See WED.11. Insight Meditation: See WED.11. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.11. The Psychology of the Body: Psychologist Robert Kest examines the biopsychological dynamics that shape daily life. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.11. TangoFlow!: See WED.11.
kids
'All in the Family' Film Series: Themed movies provide age-appropriate entertainment. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Highgate Story Hour: See WED.11. Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: See WED.11. Moving & Grooving With Christine: See WED.11. Music Makers: Song-based activities help increase children's vocabulary and phonological awareness. Richmond Free Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. One-on-One Tutoring: See WED.11. 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, 264-5664. Story Time & Playgroup: See WED.11. Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: See WED.11. Toddler Time: See WED.11.
language
English as a Second Language Class: See WED.11. German-English Conversation Group: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: See WED.11.
montréal
'Hosanna': See TUE.17.
music
40th Army Band: Founded in 1907, the iconic group plays traditional patriotic tunes alongside contemporary selections. Gymnasium, St. Albans City School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480. Song Circle: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk favorites. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.
seminars
Ownership Succession Planning Seminar: Attendees examine four different ways to sell a business and how to navigate challenges posed by each one. National Bank of Middlebury, 9 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 338-7448.
sports
Premier Floor Hockey League: See WED.11. Women's Pickup Basketball: See WED.11.
talks
Cheryl Casey: In conjunction with the Saint John's Bible residency at Champlain College, the professor of communication and creative media presents "Decoding the Bible: The Symbolic Power of Illuminated Representation." Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6432. Current Events Conversation: An informal open discussion delves into newsworthy subjects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. The Dish: A Series for Inquisitive Eaters: Panelists ponder labor and social justice within Vermont's thriving local food system. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5 p.m. $5 suggested donation; preregister. Info, ttaylor@citymarket.coop. Fred Wiseman: The researcher discusses permaculture of the past in "Wabanaki Agriculture: Theory and Practice." Vermont Heritage Galleries, Barre, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509. Lunch & Learn: Maker Spaces in Community Development: An overview of Vermont's emerging maker movement includes ways to connect it to the tech community and innovative manufacturers. Generator, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 735-0840.
theater
'Orwell in America': See WED.11, 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'Slowgirl': See WED.11. 'Spring Awakening': The journey from adolescence to adulthood propels Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony Award-winning musical, staged by the Castleton State College Department of Theater Arts. For adults only. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $7-12. Info, 468-1119. 'Typhoon of Tenderness': See SAT.14.
words
Creative Writing Workshop: See WED.11. Unfiltered: Wine & Poetry: Locally made vino pairs perfectly with verse by Vermont poets. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222. m
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art LIT WITH LAMPS: Design your own trendy pendant lamp to hang anywhere in your home while enjoying artisan brews from Burlington Beer Company or wine. Participants will learn the basics of lamp electrical circuits and wire their own cords. Leave class with a finished lamp and the knowledge to DIY at home. Mar. 20, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $50/person; $40/members; $85/two. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale, 388-0028, oneartscollective@ gmail.com, eventbrite.com/e/lit-withlamps-tickets-15839959746.
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PHOTO: PHOTOSHOP CRASH COURSE: Learn all of the basics of Adobe Photoshop in this two-night intensive workshop. Uploading and saving images for print and the web, navigating the workspace, adjustment layers, and basic editing tools will be covered. Bring images on your camera or on a Mac-compatible flash drive to class. No experience required. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Thu., Mar. 19 & 26, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.
SCHOOL BREAK: DIY WONDERLAND: Jump down the rabbit hole with us and create whimsical costumes, one-of-kind hats and headbands, wacky ties, edible art creations, and more. The day will include silly games and a Mad Hatter tea party. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages 6-12. Instructors: Alissa Faber and Rachel Hooper. Wed., Mar. 27, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85/person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and co-owner of New Duds, will introduce you to silkscreening and show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio time for practicing, use of studio chemicals, class ink and equipment. See detailed student materials list online. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Apr. 2-May 21, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost:
$22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
TAKING ETSY TO THE NEXT LEVEL: Have you had an Etsy shop open for a while but traffic is slow? Etsy seller Laura Hale will guide you through driving traffic to your shop using Etsy’s internal tools and creating your own online marketing methods. We’ll cover treasuries, blog posts and comments, integrating social media, refining listings for top search results and more! Tue., Apr. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
FINANCES WITHOUT FEAR: We’ll go over the basics of how to keep track of what you earned and spend, how to prep for taxes, and how to plan for cash flow over the course of a year. No previous accounting experience is necessary and those who are totally flummoxed and intimidated by financials are encouraged to attend. Instructor: Laura Hale. Limit: 12. Tue., Apr. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Digital Media Lab, Burlington.
TERRARIUMS: Join artist Laura Hale and create your own custom-designed terrarium. You’ll learn how to choose the right plants and create the right soil conditions for them to thrive. You’ll leave with your own custom creation and care instructions for keeping it healthy and verdant. All materials provided. Registration required. Thu., Apr. 2, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
WRITING ABOUT YOUR ARTWORK: Your artist’s statement is an opportunity to communicate what you investigate, observe or want to express with your art by informing the audience about your specific motives and processes. In this lecturebased workshop, learn tips for writing a successful statement from curator and editor, Jessica Dyer. Participants are invited to bring samples of artist statements to be reviewed. Tue., Mar. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.
WATERCOLOR: Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will gain experience with composition, color, theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en-plein-air on nice days. No experience necessary. Material list online. Instructor: Marc Nadel. Wed., Apr. 1-May 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $224/person; $201.60/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. YOUTH: DARKROOM PHOTO: Experiment in the darkroom and create one-of-a-kind images with light and objects in our black-and-white darkroom. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages: 8-12. Instructor: Kristen Watson. Sun., Apr. 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person;
JEWELRY: MIXED-LEVEL JEWELRY: This is a less structured class for students who would like to work on a specific project, brush up on their techniques, or learn some new techniques with the aid of an instructor to coach them. Open to all skill levels, but some experience is helpful for this open-style class. Pair with Bangles or Chasing and Repousee. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Weekly on Tue., Mar. 24-Apr. 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $140/person; $126/BCA members. Location: Generator, 250 Main St. (Memorial Auditorium), Burlington.
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JEWELRY: CHASING AND REPOUSSE: Take your skills a step further and learn the craft of chasing and repousee. Repousse is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side. Chasing is done on the opposite side and the two are used in conjunction to create a finished, embossed piece. Pair with Bangles. Prerequisite: Jewelry and Fine Metals experience. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Weekly on Thu., Apr. 2-16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $105/ person; $94.50/BCA members.
PHOTO: BLACK AND WHITE DARKROOM: Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black and white film with your manual 35mm or mediumformat camera, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class and all supplies. Bring your manual film camera to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt. Weekly on Mon., Mar. 23-May 18 (no class Apr. 20), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $240/person; $216/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.
PRINT: DRYPOINT PORTRAITS: In this class, students will learn the basic fundamentals of portraiture in addition to learning to print from plates using the printing press. Using their own unique style, students will work from photographs and real life. After learning the basics, additional printing techniques to add color will be covered. No printmaking experience necessary. Instructor: Katie Loesel. Weekly on Mon., Mar. 30-May 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
$280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
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ABSTRACT PAINTING: Students will explore the exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Students can choose their own paint medium (water-soluble oils, acrylics or watercolor) and should bring in some ideas or reference materials to use as a starting place. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Material list online. Instructor: Linda Jones. Weekly on Tue., Mar. 31May 19, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
DESIGN: ADOBE INDESIGN: Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign, a creative computer program used for magazine and book layout, for designing text and for preparing digital and print publications. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. Bring a Mac-compatible flash drive to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rachel Hooper. Mon., Mar. 30-May 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $205/person; $184.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
PHOTO: ALTERNATIVE DARKROOM PROCESS: PRINTING ON GLASS, WOOD AND METAL: Learn new aspects of black-and-white darkroom printmaking! Students will learn to print on a variety of materials, including watercolor paper, fabric, wood, metal and glass using Liquid Light, an emulsion that can be painted on a variety of surfaces for a unique effect. Bring your film/ digital negatives and ideas to the first class. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dana Dunham. Weekly on Wed., Apr. 8-Apr. 22, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $135/ person; $121/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
PRINT: MIXED LEVEL MONOPRINT: Students will hone their skills working with the press and learn how to incorporate dry point, collagraphs and embossing techniques into their printmaking, and techniques to layer images that create depth and master chine colle. Over 25 hours per week of open studio time is included for producing prints. Prerequisite: Some previous experience with printing suggested. Instructor: Susan Smereka. Weekly on Wed., Apr. 1-May 6, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
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COMICS: Students will create a six-to-eight-page self-published mini-comic featuring handdrawn characters and stories. Students will work with a variety of media including pencil, ink, colored pencil and watercolor. Students can explore various comic formats including singlepanel, four-panel, and multiplepanel strips. No previous drawing experience required. Material list online. Instructor: Glynnis Fawkes. Weekly on Thu., Apr. 9-May 21 (no class Apr. 23), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189 BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM: Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs using Adobe Photoshop 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. Bring a Mac-compatible portable flash or hard drive with your images to the first class. Pair this class with Digital SLR Camera for a 12-week experience and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing! Instructor: Dan Lovell. No experience necessary. Wed., Apr. 1-May 6, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $260/person; $234/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
PHOTO: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY: Improve your portrait-taking skills in this hands-on class. Camera techniques, composition, the use of studio and natural light, working with a model and more will be covered. Bring your camera with a charged battery and memory card to the first class. Prerequisite: Film or Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Weekly on Thu., Apr. 9-Apr. 23, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
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PAINT YOUR PORTRAIT: Bring a black-and-white 8.5 x 11 printout of a photo of yourself. Together, we will paint on top of it and create your very own self portrait. Perfect for the beginning artist who isn’t as comfortable with drawing, but wants to explore painting. Mar. 15, 3-5:30. Cost: $35/person; $25/members; $50/ two. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: ONE Arts Center, Becca McHale, 388-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, eventbrite.com/e/paint-yourportrait-tickets-15839583621.
CLAY: SILKSCREEN SLIP TRANSFERS: Using silkscreen printing techniques to transfer slip on your clay work can add esthetic depth, hard to achieve when painting slips directly onto your work. In this lecture-style class, Chris Vaughn will demonstrate the possibilities of surface decoration using slip transfers on thrown and slab-built forms and introduce basic silkscreen techniques using photo emulsion. Sun. Apr. 19, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
Location: Generator, 250 Main St. (Memorial Auditorium), Burlington.
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dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.
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coaching CAREER BURN-OUT: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!: Get practical and creative ideas to identify the work you are meant to do, reduce stress, fatigue and health issues related to a mismatch between your values and career. Get a complimentary copy of the book Go Forward Fearlessly when you register. Led by Cornelia Ward, author and career mentor. Mar. 25, 6-7 p.m. free. Location: Online workshop, call to register. Info: Cornelia, 864-2978.
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craft BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Receive instruction on the bicycle’s systems and parts and practice common repairs and adjustments. Taught by professional mechanics from Old Spokes Home. Class is seven consecutive two-hour sessions. Tuition supports Bike Recycle Vermont’s programs. Participants encouraged to practice skills by volunteering in the nonprofit shop after completion of the class. Weekly on Fri., Mar. 13-May 1, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $175/14 hours total. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Christine Hill, 339-223-0722, christine@bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org. FEMMECHANICS: Learn to fix your bike! Female-identifying people learn bicycle maintenance and repair in a supportive environment. Students learn systems and parts of the bicycle and practice common repairs and adjustments on their own bikes. Taught by a female mechanic from Old Spokes Home. 3 Wed., Mar. 18-Apr. 1 or Apr. 15-29, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $95/3 3-hour classes; scholarships avail. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Christine Hill, 339-2230722, christine@bikerecyclevt. org, bikerecyclevermont.org. INTRODUCTION TO BLACKSMITHING: Learn the fundamentals of forging mild steel. Introductory course to learn basic forging techniques using gas forge, coal forge, hammer and anvil, and other associated tools. 3 Sat. for 3 hours, preferably mornings. Cost: $270/3 3-hour classes. Location: Water Gate Forge, 629 Keene Rd., South Walden. Info: James Teuscher,
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ADULT: ADVANCED METAL: Come learn from Master Goldsmith Matthew Taylor of Matthew Taylor Designs at the Shelburne Craft School. Fabricate a beautiful piece of jewelry from a pendant to a ring. Techniques include, but are not limited to, soldering, piercing, light forging and more. Students will discuss with Matt what their projects may entail and he will be there to guide and answer questions. Weekly on Tue., Apr. 14-May 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $345/ nonmembers; $316/members; incl. $55 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. ADULT: BEGINNER WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. This course is great for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze. After crafting your pottery on the wheel Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. 6 Tue., Apr. 28-Jun. 2, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $210/nonmembers; $192.50/ members; incl. $35 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. ADULT: CLAY AND WHEEL: Instructor: Dasha Kalisa. Breaking away from round. Are you tired of feeling like you are making the same-shaped pots over and over again? This class will take basic shapes thrown on the wheel and give you the hand building and finishing skills to make any shape you can think of! Techniques will include: shaving, darting, faceting, fluting, cutting and stacking. 10 Sat., Apr. 18-Jun. 20, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $410/nonmembers; $372.50/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
ADULT: JEWELRY: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art. Each student will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver. Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming, and soldering techniques. Weekly on Wed., Apr. 8-Jun. 3, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $335/nonmembers; $306/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. ADULT: LANDSCAPE IN OIL: Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane. Drawing correctly from nature is a basic skill and the foundation of good painting. This program is designed to develop the student’s visual relationship with nature and translate it onto a canvas in paint. The goal will be an Impressionistic but accurate painting using various comparative methods that will be taught to facilitate drawing, mixing colors and rendering forms. 8 Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 1-3:30 p.m. Cost: $290/nonmembers; $261/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. ADULT: SHAKER HALL TABLE: A comprehensive introduction to woodworking, this course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery and finishing. Students will build their own Shaker-style hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project, and gain familiarity with the woodshop environment. Weekly on Mon., Apr. 13-Jun. 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $450/nonmembers; $413.50/ members; incl. $85 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
ADULT: WATERCOLOR: Instructor: Jackie Mangione. Boost your creativity with this six-week class designed to hone your watercolor skills. Beginners or students in previous classes are welcome. Each two-hour session includes a live demonstration that will guide you through the lesson. We will cover a broad array of painting fundamentals with color and value relationships, wet and dry watercolor techniques and design principles that will help you build strong paintings. Weekly on Tue., Apr. 14-May 19, 5-7 p.m. Cost: $174/ nonmembers; $156.50/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne Craft School. ADULT: HAND-BUILDING: Instructor: Alex Costantino. This hand-building class will focus on creating sculptural and functional pieces using slabs, extrusions, solid building and coils. Students explore texture and surface using multiple techniques. If you already have an idea or some inspirational images (sculptural or functional), bring them to the first class. Weekly on Fri., Apr. 24-Jun. 19, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $371.25/nonmember; $338.63/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
culinary SEASONAL CSA COOKING: WINTER: Basic introductory classes taught by amateur home cook Andrea Todd. Over a series of sessions you will be guided thorough a different kitchen technique for cooking and preserving winter vegetables each week: boiling, roasting, sauteing, freezing. Hands-on learning. Come prepared to cook. Materials provided. Tue., Mar. 17, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $20/1hour class. Location: McClure
DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com. LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com. ZUMBA CLASS IN THE SOUTH END: Have fun while getting fit! Zumba is a 60-minute dance workout combined with interval/ resistance training. Enjoy an array of high-energy music including salsa, merengue, samba, cha-cha, soca, hip-hop, belly dance and more. Songs will change every few weeks to keep class fresh. No previous Zumba or dance experience needed! Weekly on Sat., 11 a.m.-noon. Cost: $14/class; class passes avail. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044.
drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners
Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. $22/drop-in. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space & Capitol City Grange, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, & 6612 Route 12, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: 999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN MONTPELIER: Learn Taiko in Montpelier! Weekly on Thu., Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:30-6:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.
empowerment JUNG AND OUR WESTERN TRADITION II: Learn about the antecedents of Jung and his work and his use of key figures in Western history. A key question we consider is how our Western tradition became estranged from ancient wisdom during the last 500 years of our history. Jung’s response to this estrangement and his suggested remedies are a focus of our discussion. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Mar. 18 & 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, & May 6 & 13, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $90/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. PUER AND SENEX: Puer and Senex are two key archetypes that live in every person. Via a series of exercises, supplemented with readings by Jung and his students, we examine the nature of both archetypes, and how working with each can help us to individuate. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Mar. 19 & 26 & Apr. 2 & 9, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.
fitness FIRST STRIDES VERMONT: First Strides is a beginner 12-week program that will help you progress from the couch to walking or running at a pace that’s right
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for you. Find self-confidence you never imagined possible. Weekly meetings include a self-paced group walk and/or run with supportive, experienced mentors, plus inspirational, informative speakers. Weekly on Wed., May 6-Jul. 22. Cost: $45/12-week program if preregistered online; $50 day of. Location: Community Park & Paths, behind Williston Central School, Williston. Info: First Strides Vermont, Kasie Enman, 238-0820, info@ firststridesvermont.com, firststridesvermont.com.
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Devising Theater Workshop: Explore the world of devising. Classes will focus on building ensemble, creating a common vocabulary, launching/ researching a theme, generating material and tools for structuring. Focus will be on physical theater. Instructor: Jena Necrason. Fri., Mar. 13, 6-9 p.m. & Sat., Mar. 14, 3-6 p.m. Cost: $75/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
Mixed Media Drawing: Build your drawing skills with new materials, techniques and media beyond the pencil. Use pen and ink, ink and watercolor washes and line to add depth and detail to your drawings. Weekly on Tue., Mar. 17-Apr. 14, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $125/person; $100/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.
herbs HONORING HERBAL TRADITION 2015: Herbal Apprenticeship Program held on a horse farm. Herbal therapies, nutritional support, diet, detox, body systems, medicine making, plant identification, tea tasting, plant spirit medicine and animal communication, wild foods, field trips, iridology, and women’s, children’s, men’s and animal health! Textbook & United Plant Saver membership included! Open to all! 1 Sat./mo. for 8 mos., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $900/person.
kids Intermediate Ballet, ages 9-13: For children with two or more years of ballet experience. This class will continue to build technical skills, coordination and discipline while working on classical ballet choreography. More advanced barre exercises are introduced, as well as continued development of center floor work and large jumps across the room. Weekly on Wed., 6:50-7:50 p.m. Cost: $150/11-week class. Location: South End Studio, Burlington. Info: 540-0044.
language ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Our ninth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Beginning week of Mar. 30 for 10 weeks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ minutes each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Japanese Language Classes: The Japan-America Society of Vermont (JASV) is offering Beginning Japanese Language Courses, Levels 1 and 2, on the campus of Saint Michael’s
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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
Storytelling with Mark Stein: In this supportive sixweek workshop, storytellers will develop and sharpen their skills. Novice and experienced raconteurs will have the opportunity to work through the entire process, from selecting compelling material and constructing a balanced narrative, to effective, powerful delivery at performance time. 6 Sun., Apr. 5-May 10, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $150/6 2-hour classes. Location: Spark Arts, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Spark Arts, Natalie Miller, 373-7007, natalie@sparkartsvt. com, sparkartsvt.com.
massage Asian Bodywork Therapy Program: This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. Begins September 2015. Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct.. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net.
meditation Learn to Meditate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café(meditation
tai chi Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases 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.
yoga Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Really different, hot yoga with far infrared heating panels. We offer creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring Prana Flow Hot Yoga in a 93-degree studio with balanced humidity, accompanied by eclectic music in our newly remodeled studio. Come try this unique heat which has many healing benefits. Classes daily. Ahh, to be warm on a cold day, a flowing practice, a cool stone meditation and a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963. Community Yoga classes: SES offers five Community Yoga classes a week! We also offer Heated Vinyasa, Hatha Flow, Men’s Yoga, Katonah Yoga and Middle School Yoga; prices vary.
Are you a beginner? Ask about our affordable private or semiprivate classes to get you ready and comfortable to join a yoga class! Times vary; check website. Cost: $6/1-hour drop-in class. Location: South End Studio, Burlington. Info: 540-0044. Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-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 Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Yoga Roots: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. Clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Anusura-inspired all levels, Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! Spring schedule starts Mar. 1. New: Kripalu Yoga w/ Pam, Sun., 12:30-1:30 p.m. Upcoming series/workshops: Men’s Yoga Feb. 24-Mar. 31; Absolute Beginner Level II, Mar. 12-Apr. 16; Teen Yoga ongoing series Mar. 10-Apr. 14. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.
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Edible Forest Gardens: Join Meghan Giroux from Vermont Edible Landscapes and learn how to create an edible forest garden.
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Wisdom of the Herbs School: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015. Tuition $1,750. VSAC non-degree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.
and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 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.
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Vermont School of Herbal Studies: Foundations of Herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited. Certificate upon completion. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825/person. Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.
College. Classes will start on Wed., Mar. 11 (Level 1) and Mon., Mar. 16 (Level 2) from 6:15-7:45 p.m. (dates may slip a week or so, or even be canceled, if there are not enough students.) Each class continues for 10 weekly sessions. Main textbook: Japanese for Busy People I (AJALT). 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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Scene Study: Work on paired scenes from a variety of genres in this collaborative and supportive class. Learn to examine the depth of possibility within the text, the story and your character. Class is open to bashful beginners as well as those with more experience who want to refine their craft and sink their teeth into a rich character or dynamic conflict. Weekly on Thu., Mar. 12-Apr. 16, 5:40-7:10 p.m. Cost: $125/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
Hands-on Gardening Course: Want to grow your own fresh vegetables, but not sure where to start? Join the Community Teaching Garden, a hands-on 22-week course for beginning gardeners. Scholarships available. More information and registration: vcgn.org/what-wedo/community-teaching-garden. Registration deadline: April 6. Twice weekly, May-Oct. Cost: $300/person incl. 22 weeks of instruction, garden space, seeds, plants, water, supplies, tools, resources & all the veggies you can grow. Location: Two Community Teaching Garden sites: Ethan Allen Homestead & the Intervale, Burlington. Info: Vermont Community Garden Network, Denise Quick, 861-4769, denise@ vcgn.org, vcgn.org/what-we-do/ community-teaching-garden.
Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, horsetailherbs.org.
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Contemporary Dance: Looking Deeper: These intensive is designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers in our region. Each intensive will focus on different aspects of the skills at the core of strong and compelling performers and performances. Instructor: Susan Sgorbati. Adults & teens 16+. Sun., Mar. 22, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $30/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
Discover how to design, establish and maintain ecosystems that mimic the structure and function of natural forests. Mar. 21, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $12.50/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505.
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o many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out. To that end, here are four albums that likely flew under the radar of your average local music fan. In some cases, they represent the outermost boundaries of local music. Others simply slipped through the cracks. But each is worth a listen.
Little Bruce Junior, Nothing Ever Happens
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Bruce Hyde is faster than you. Much faster. He’ll probably also fleece you in a game of poker. The Waitsfield native was an Olympic-level runner at Cornell University, where he may or may not have set an Ivy League record in the mile. That’s a long story, in part because he did so — or didn’t — under a pseudonym, Bruce Denton, as an eighth-year senior. Oh, and then he retired from competitive running to enter the World Series of Poker. So there’s that. Hyde has another alias, this one nonathletic. He writes and records music from his hideaway in central Vermont as Little Bruce Junior. His recently released album, Nothing Ever Happens, raises an interesting question: Why does Bruce Hyde seem to do his best work under assumed names? In a recent email, Hyde writes that he’s recently returned to his hometown, “hoping to add to the weirdo quotient in Vermont.” There may be weirder records issuing from the mountains than Nothing Ever Happens. But few are as queerly appealing. As Little Bruce, Hyde trades in a lo-fi, retro-style brand of psychedelic blues-pop and garage rock. Lean and quirky, his record sounds like what might happen if the Black Keys holed up in the mountains with a few handles of Jack Daniels, a pile of hallucinogens and a TASCAM four-track. It is indeed weird, woolly stuff. But it’s also amiable and accessible, rooted in sharp, observational songcraft that anchors Little Bruce Junior’s pleasant, oddball tendencies. littlebrucejunior.bandcamp.com
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Boatman’s Lament, Boatman’s Lament LP (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)
Though it probably doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves, Vermont’s metal scene is thriving. It is also
diverse, with bands representing myriad sounds from doomcore to arena metal and beyond. Somewhere along that dark spectrum sits Boatman’s Lament, a Ferrisburgh-based quintet that trades in a hybrid style its members aptly call “Green Mountain progressive alterna-sludge.” BL claim inspiration from the dark ranks of bands such as Black Sabbath, Neurosis and ISIS, as well as proggy metal acts Opeth and the Tea Party. That sinister cauldron of influences informs the fusion of ink-black sludge and compositional devilry heard on the band’s new self-titled full-length — a follow-up to a 2012 EP, also self-titled. But it’s the band’s melodic approach that distinguishes. Obliging the “alterna” portion of their chosen genre designation, BL take vocal cues from ’90s grunge, specifically the shadowy anguish of Soundgarden and especially Alice in Chains. While the band churns ominously deep below the surface, above, vocalists Matt Schoop and Jon Blais evoke the emotive whine of late Chains front man Layne Staley in both tone and melodic style. It’s a curious but often compelling combination. facebook.com/pages/boatmans-lament
Less for Hire, Paper Hearts (SELF-RELEASED, CD)
The members of Less for Hire have been playing music together, in one formation or another, for more than a decade. But Paper Hearts, released in 2014, appears to be the Stowe band’s first proper release. Given the band’s not exactly SEO-friendly name, that’s hard to say for sure. A sparsely updated Facebook page does include a smattering of singles, some dating back to 2002. Otherwise, we’re not left with much to go on, aside from the CD itself. But that’s probably enough. LFH present a radio-friendly version of pop rock. Y’know, if commercial radio were still friendly to pop rock. Perhaps better put, LFH present a version of pop rock that would have been radio friendly in, say, 2002.
The band’s slickly produced alt-rock sound harks to the days when the likes of Creed, Nickelback and 3 Doors Down ruled the airwaves. And, especially instrumentally, it’s a more than adequate facsimile. LFH are conversant in the entire bag of tricks from that era of pop rock, particularly esoteric guitar tones followed by overdriven hooks. The problem is that vocalists Vinnie Charkalis and Justin McAlarney often fail to match their band’s instrumental fortitude. Huge, anthemic choruses are met with thin, and often pitch-challenged, vocals, sapping the band’s pop suites of needed urgency. facebook.com/lessforhire
Mainstream Blues, Adventures in You & Me (SELF-RELEASED, CD)
Mainstream Blues is the alias of Arthur Spellman, a songwriter and one-man band who writes and records in his South Burlington basement. Spellman has a pair of full-length recordings to his credit, the most fully formed of which is Adventures in You & Me. That lo-fi record, and the equally grainy but slightly less musically polished We Will Find, offer an intriguing glimpse into the creative mind of a hermetic local artist. As his sobriquet implies, Spellman crafts a bluesy take on mainstream rock music. He’s not breaking molds, by any stretch. But over 11 no-frills tracks, he proves to be a solid vocalist and guitarist, well schooled in the basic tenets of pop songwriting set down by the likes of Messrs. Lennon/McCartney, Springsteen and Petty. Spellman could use a hand with engineering — and maybe a producer to wean him off his reliance on cheesy phasing effects. But viewed as a demo, Adventures in You & Me is better than serviceable, suggesting a nascent talent is budding in the subterranean suburbs. mainstreamblues.bandcamp.com
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WYSIWYG, the Precipice). This is not a knock on any of those fests, which are all wonderful in their own distinct and important ways. But as we’ve opined previously, Waking Windows is quite simply the coolest music festival in Vermont. And it’s becoming a monster. WW5, which runs from Friday, May 1, through Sunday, May 3, will feature more than 100 bands performing at 11 venues in and around downtown Winooski, including an expanded outdoor stage. That includes some new joints, too, such as Four Quarters Brewing, Waterworks Food + Drink and Scout & Co. But really, the entire Onion City is the venue for WW, which is part of what makes the festival so unique. “One of the main goals of the festival is to spotlight the rapid development, both economically and culturally, of downtown Winooski,” writes WW’s mAtt RoGERS in a recent email to Seven Days. Well, that, and some serious rocking. A hallmark of WW has always been its strong mix of national, regional
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Last week, we got a glimpse of warmer days ahead in the form of some early announcements for the 2015 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. That smattering of leaked names helped take some of the chill off what has been a particularly frigid end to Fuck You, Vermont season, also known as winter. Well, if the BDJF announcement nudged the thermostat up a degree or two, then a recent missive from our pals at Waking Windows Presents cranked that sucker to 80. Last week, the WWP crew didn’t just tease with some choice names for the Waking Windows 5 festival in May. They announced (almost) the entire freaking lineup. Your move, other festivals. (BDJF: “OK.”) Since its inception as a wellintentioned, if overmatched, alternative to BDJF five years ago, WW has blossomed into a truly remarkable and unique festival. Sure, others are much bigger (BDJF), some boast more star power (Grand Point North, Lake Champlain Maritime Festival), and still others trade more overtly on hyperlocal Vermontiness (Eat by Northeast,
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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife music collective (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Session, 9 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: open mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Rick cusick (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. mikey Sweet (folk), 8 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free. Ron Gallow, the Lawsuits, Happiness (garage rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: The Usual Suspects (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos Vt, 7 p.m., free. ZensDay (top 40), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
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THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.
singer LUcIANo is a little different. His mantle isn’t decorated with gold statuettes but rather awards with superlatives
MOOG'S PLACE: Golden Novak Duo (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.
such as “Most Spiritual and Educative Singer” and “Most
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Cultural Artist,” honors that speak to the nature of his socially conscious brand of roots reggae. Luciano plays
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I-KRoNIK BAND and local DJs BIG DoG and JAHSoN.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
THE STAGE: open mic, 6 p.m., free.
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MONOPOLE: open mic, 10 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Shay Gestal (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Red Baraat (world music, funk), 8 p.m., $15/20. AA.
BENTO: classics Vinyl clash (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.
JAMES MOORE TAVERN: John Daly trio (folk rock), 8 p.m., free.
ARTSRIOT: matt & Kim (indie), 8 p.m., $20. AA.
CHURCH & MAIN: cody Sargent trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.
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CLUB METRONOME: Weathersky, Doctor Rick (rock, funk), 9 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free.
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FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Backwoods Boogie (eclectic), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: trivia mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: matt Schrag & Friends, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. PIZZA BARRIO: Wallace (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.
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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: New Suede Blues, 7 p.m., free. PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Isaiah mayhew (roots, reggae), 6 p.m., donation.
NUTTY STEPH'S: tarot with madam claire, 6 p.m., free. Bacon Thursday: Andy Plante,
Andric Severance (jazz), 7 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: BYoV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free. Golden Novak Duo (folk), 8 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Lewis Franco & the Brown Eyed Girls (swing), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Eric Sommer (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: open mic, 8 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: Seth Eames (mountain blues), 4 p.m., free. SUSHI YOSHI (STOWE): Will Sellenraad trio (jazz), 5 p.m., free.
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CITY LIMITS: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Jam man Entertainment (dance party), 10 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom THE STAGE: The chills (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., free.
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than just the romantic shots,” writes Baribeau. So they reworked the movie, adding narration and explanation regarding the various mechanisms they used while trolling the depths of the north Pacific — fishing machinery that’s probably pretty alien to landlocked Vermont hipsters. Baribeau and Naples will screen the newly recut and revamped film at ArtsRiot in Burlington this Saturday, March 14. They’ll be on hand to answer questions about that 2013 expedition, presumably in pirate voices. (That last part is unconfirmed as of press time.) Oh, also on hand to lend some musical support will be MICHAEL NAU of excellent indie-folk outfit COTTON JONES — talk about burying the lede, eh? — and locals MARYSE SMITH and SNAKEFOOT. Yar.
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Last but not least, when they returned home from a 2013 commercial fishing voyage in Alaska, CAPT. TONY NAPLES and Villanelles front man TRISTAN BARIBEAU made an art film chronicling their adventures called The Pirates of Tebenkov. The film, which caught some press nibbles in this very paper, premiered at a small screening at Hotel Vermont last year. The local reception of the film could basically be summed up like this: “Wow. That was beautiful! … What happened?” In a recent email to 7D, Baribeau explains that in its original form, the film was essentially a series of long, scenic shots and cool music that offered very little in the way of explanation. That led to some confusion on the part of audience members. “Our biggest critique was that people wanted more information as to the actual work we were doing on deck throughout the film, rather
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I kid you not, as I was typing the sentence, “Your move, other festivals,” in the preceding column bit, the BDJF sent an email with the following heading: Discover Jazz Festival Announces Headliner MAVIS STAPLES. Well played, hepcats. Well played. Also, are you spying on me? Cuz I’m a little freaked out right now. (Frantically erases browser history.) Staples, one of the most beloved American singers of all time, will headline the Flynn MainStage on Friday, June 12. She’s touring behind a 2013 record produced by WILCO’s JEFF TWEEDY called One True Vine — a followup to her Grammy-winning 2011 album, You Are Not Alone, also recorded with Tweedy. That 2013 record is a dark, moving collection of music that features covers of NICK LOWE and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC tunes, among others, in addition to a handful of songs written by Tweedy. How’s that for variation? And that wasn’t the only big announcement. The BDJF also revealed four more FlynnSpace shows: STEVE LEHMAN OCTET (June 7); JOE LOCKE’S LOVE
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ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 p.m., $5. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.
MOOG'S PLACE: The cop outs (rock), 9 p.m., free.
chittenden county
RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Eoto, ill.Gates (live electronica), 9 p.m., $15. aa. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Earphunk, Zoogma, modern measure (funk), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. aa. JAMES MOORE TAVERN: The Full cleveland (rock), 8 p.m., free. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: milo White Band (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.
RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: Paul Asbell (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Luciano, I-Kronik Band, DJs Big Dog and Jahson (reggae), 9 p.m., $22/27. 18+.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with top Hat Entertainment (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Longford Row (irish), 6 p.m., $3. DJ Dizzle (hip-hop, top 40), 10 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Francesca Blanchard (folk), 8 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Loose Association (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. Justice (rock), 9 p.m., free.
THE BEAR DEN AT BURKE MOUNTAIN: DoJo (bluegrass), 4 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: The tenderbellies (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
THE STAGE: The Doc and Donovan (blues, singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Abby Jenne (rock), 7 p.m., free. Lake milk, mystery Points (rock), 10 p.m., free.
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NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. clint Bierman and the Necessary means, Rumblecat (funk, blues), 9 p.m., $5.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. Greg Klyma (alt-country), 5:30 p.m., free. James margolis (soul), 7 p.m., free. Brian Gatch (americana), 8 p.m., free. maryse Smith (folk), 9 p.m., free. Frank Viele 2/27/15 12:37 PM (acoustic soul), 10:30 p.m., free. Revibe (jam, funk), midnight, free.
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MATTERHORN: Funkwagon (funk), 9 p.m., $5.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Against All odds, A Light Like Dawn, Flip Deptula, Dennis Sullivan (punk), 8:30 p.m., $3/7. 18+.
JUNIPER: Justin Levinson (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free.
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RUBEN JAMES: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: Andriana chobot (jazz, pop), 4 p.m., free. Electric Sorcery (rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ con Yay (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Retro Fridays, 6 p.m., donation.
NUTTY STEPH'S: Astrology for the People with mistress Jezebel, 6 p.m., free. Jazzaoke with Z Jazz, 7 p.m., free. Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (world), 10 p.m., Na. SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Dead Sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Golden Novak Duo (folk), 7 p.m., free.
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THE BEE'S KNEES: Spider Roulette (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation.
PHAT KATS TAVERN: Pat and the Hats (rock), 9 p.m., free.
MONOPOLE: The B-Side (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: catfish & Bodega (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.
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ARTSRIOT: "Pirates of tibenkov," michael Nau, maryse Smith, SnakeFoot (film screening, singersongwriters), 6:30 p.m., $10/12. aa. BENTO: Selah Sounds, 10 p.m., free. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: mike martello (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.
CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Ebn Ezra (experimental electronica), 7 p.m., free. Disco Phantom (disco, house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Almost Nowhere (rock), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Franky Andreas (instrumental acoustic), 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: The Retro Rockets (rock), 7 p.m., free. Freeze a Peach, Al moore Blues Band (allman Brothers Band tribute), 9 p.m., $7. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Acoustic Brunch with Paul Boffa & April caspari, noon, free. chris and Bear from the Vermont Brigade (acoustic), 4 p.m., free. Emily Dumas (gospel, jazz), 5:30 p.m., free. Giovanina Bucci (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Annalise Emmerick (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Eric Sommer (americana, pop), 9 p.m., free. Bison (nomadic disco punk), 10:30 p.m., free. Self Portrait with matt Hagen, DJ Kanganade and more (hip-hop), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: Soul Junction (soul, funk), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign one (EDm), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: DJ Atak & Guests (EDm, top 40), 10 p.m., $5.
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JAMES MOORE TAVERN: Bear Jam with Britt Kuserow (rock), 8 p.m., free. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: King me (acoustic rock), 8:30 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Up on the Roof (jam), 8:30 p.m., $3. sat.14
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I like it. A lot. I know, I know. I’m supposed to come up with a more sophisticated and nuanced way of describing my feelings about the Leatherbound Books’ debut EP, Tender My Hopes. I should find some clever, perhaps even provocative, journalistic vehicle for introducing the review, hopefully one I can return to at the end to tie it all up with a neat little critical bow. But that’s all I’ve got. I like it. A lot. See, the thing is, the EP is just so damned, well, likable. It’s not some grand, mind-blowing — or pretentious — artistic statement. There are no face-melting instrumental histrionics, nor does the recording introduce some transcendent new singer or songwriter to the local fold. Instead, quite humbly, the EP presents five lovingly crafted little folk tunes, played and sung with precision, grace and warmth. No more, no less. And I like it. A lot. Tender My Hopes feels familiar. It’s like when you’re drawn to someone you’re
certain you’ve never met, but can’t shake the feeling that you have. From the moment you press play, the EP has an inviting quality. It feels lived-in and cozy. No doubt, that homey, homespun aesthetic is due to the band’s primary architects, guitarist/vocalist Eric Daniels and bassist/ vocalist Jackie Buttolph. As singers and as songwriters, the two work in beautifully dovetailing symmetry. Take, for example, the opening cut, “Watch a Pot Boil.” Over a buoyant, bluesy shuffle, the duo effortlessly trades verses, Buttolph singing with sly sass and Daniels with a charming, roguish rasp. When they join at the chorus, it recalls the grinning John Prine/Iris DeMent classic, “In Spite of Ourselves.” Daniels, who penned four of the EP’s five tracks, writes with a winsome flair for which Buttolph, who handles the bulk of the lead duties, is well suited. She’s not a flashy singer. But like the aforementioned DeMent, the key to her appeal is in her winking sauciness as much as her unconventionally pretty tone. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the song she wrote, “Whistle While We Work.” The affirmation of hard-worn love is gently stitched together with references to songs
from old Disney movies. (“We can keep the pace together / Like a spoooonful of sugar.” I mean, come on! You’d need to be Cruella de Vil not to love that.) Fiddler Tucker Hanson is a band highlight. A gifted player better known for his work with Reverend Ben Donovan & the Congregation, Hanson shines when given the spotlight. His lead and solo licks on the Lumineers-ish “1000 Tiny Pieces” are especially fiery. But Hanson’s most important contributions often come by way of added texture, as on the closer “Until It Makes No Sense.” Here, he and drummer Charlie Smyrk lock into a sinewy, indie-folk groove that allows Buttolph and Daniels to deliver their most thoroughly gripping performance of the bunch. (Think First Aid Kit meet the Felice Brothers.) I like it. A lot. The Leatherbound Books play the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington this Sunday, March 15, with Current Swell and Will Evans. Tender My Hopes is available at theleatherboundbooks. bandcamp.com. DAN BOLLES
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(Fluorescence)” and “Own Wave (Bioluminescence)” channel the glossy romance of ’80s synth pop. The former is perfectly polished with sky-high harmonies, while the latter is defined by a snazzy, shaky-camera drum line. Vocally, Galileo maintains control and knowingly fluctuates between buoyantly breathy, purposefully flat, and dark and sexy. Especially on “Cold Night,” Galileo employs silky R&B undulations. Next, on “Hot Rush,” Galileo slips back into the slinky, head-nodding hip-hop vibe of his earlier cuts. The Ifandbut is distinctly less playful than Guthrie Galileo’s previous EP. While the new effort is much more nuanced, cohesive and ambitious, it does demand serious emotional investment from its listeners. Accordingly, it’s an ideal soundtrack for late-night dreaming and melancholic brooding. Guthrie Galileo’s The Ifandbut is available at guthriegalileo.bandcamp.com.
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Producer and performer Guthrie Galileo got his start at the University of Vermont, but his mix of ambient electro and alternative R&B is rooted in California cool. After releasing a spring 2014 EP, Sauce Vapor, Galileo, now based in San Francisco, is back with a 12-track LP, The Ifandbut. Soaked with dark synth and languid beats, The Ifandbut is a noticeable departure from the electro-pop excitement of Galileo’s prior effort. Gone are the moments of chill West Coast rapping and the peppy, neon production; this is a more thoughtful approach. While most of his earlier songs looked outward, Galileo’s writing on The Ifandbut is introspective. Additionally, the lack of pop-culture name-dropping that appeared on Sauce Vapor makes this LP a more serious lyrical work. Themes of youth and identity are frequent, as on “Walk With Me.” Here, Galileo muses, “When being young starts to get old / We fell asleep
with stains on our souls / But could we be different? / When the morning comes.” Yet some songs, such as “Bildungsroman” and “If,” are simply repetitive single verses. It’s unclear whether Galileo is purposefully withholding or is struggling to define his own words and feelings. Galileo also continuously references certain lines from other tracks. “But it would be hotter to be holding you” appears on both “Cold Night” and “Hot Rush,” while the lyrics for “If” and “That Irreversible” are exactly the same. It’s not so much laziness as an attempt to revisit his own work, but the effect is less revolutionary when it occurs on the same album. Instrumentally, Galileo explores the gloomier side of electro. “Deluge Ostinato” is a creaky, nails-on-chalkboards number fit for a horror movie score. “Phantom” is a standout track. With spectral, distant beats and apocalyptic lyrics, it’s a darkly sophisticated journey. That said, lighter moments on the LP hark back to Sauce Vapor. “Star Rays
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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 5 p.m., free. Tymes Up (rock), 9 p.m., free. PENALTY BOX: Salsa Night with DJ Hector, 10 p.m., $3. 18+. VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Saturday Night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.
barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Bitter Greens (Americana), 6 p.m., donation.
CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Sara Grace (soul), 7 p.m., free. Whiskey Kill, DJ Jefe (rockabilly), 10 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Kelly Ravin (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Anachronist (indie rock), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area MATTERHORN: Richard James & the Name Changers (rock), 4 p.m., $3. Richard James & the Name Changers (rock), 9 p.m., $5.
MOOG'S PLACE: Coquette (rock), 9 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: the Woedoggies (country, blues), 4 p.m., free. Hot Neon Magic (’80s new wave), 9 p.m., $10.
middlebury area
BAR ANTIDOTE: The Usual Suspects (blues), 9 p.m., free.
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CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Celtic Brunch with Hannah Beth Crary, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle's Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. O'Hanleigh (Irish folk), 7 p.m., free. Pip Malt (country rock), 9:30 p.m., free. Cworner Stwore (instrumental experimental hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Current Swell, the Leatherbound Books, Will Evans (rock), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Freedy Johnston (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Dale and Darcy (Irish), 4 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: Great Valley's Grape Room, the Lentils, Whitewash (experimental pop), 8:30 p.m., $5. PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Aaron Lee and Tucker Daniels (folk), 11 a.m., donation.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Howard Ring Guitar Brunch, 11 a.m., donation.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Keith Williams (blues), 6 p.m., free. DJ Blinie (dance party), 10 p.m., free.
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THE STAGE: Open Mic, 5 p.m., free.
THE PARKER PIE CO.: Lake Region Union High School's Voices of Spring, 8 p.m., NA.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Champlain Valley Irish Dancers, 4 p.m., free.
THE STAGE: Dave Richardson (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Granite Junction (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free.
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FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.
MONOPOLE: The North & South Dakotas (rock), 10 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Glengarry Bhoys (Irish), 7 p.m., free.
burlington
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.
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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Practical Mammoth (rock), 8:30 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
BACKSTAGE PUB: Barbie N Bones (rock), 9 p.m., free.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Aquatic Underground (house, techno), 10 p.m., free.
CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: DJ Crucible (metal), 10 p.m., free.
burlington
JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Julian Chobot Jazz Trio, 8 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.
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burlington
242 MAIN: The Amphibious Man, Langosta, Sleeping In, the Dead Souls (horror punk, indie), 7 p.m., $7. AA. CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.
FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free.
NECTAR'S: Metal Monday: Aggression, Amadis, Boatman's Lament, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+.
LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.
OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
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outside vermont
JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.
ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
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PHAT KATS TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: Everybody's Favorite Irish Drinkin' Songs Band, 4 p.m., free. Josh Panda (soul, roots), 6 p.m., free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Cooie Sings, Spider Roulette (blues, gypsy jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.
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I have some time. Can you explain the core of the narrative? Death is bored and wants to retire, so Death creates a clone of itself and then trains the clone without letting the clone know that there is more than one spirit of death. Death No. 1 needs to do these specific events in order to retire; the apocalypse is part of the scheme Death
syndrome, and grow bigger and bigger outside of the rage tanks. As they get bigger, we don’t want them around us, and war breaks out. In the end, Death No. 1 has to convince the remaining humans to live on the backs of the four remaining dragonflies, which are the size of New York City. Death No. 1 set this up so that Death No. 2 would understand that respecting life is the most important part of death. Many of your paintings have been in black and white on tarpaper, but some of your newer works are neon colored, though the settings look similar. The bright colors are to trick people. I’ve heard people say after seeing them, “Oh, I want to live there,” and I chuckle, because they really don’t want to live there.
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Many of your works look like they’re set in a nuclear meltdown, or some sort of worst-case climate-change scenario. How did you come to create “Forecast/Revival”? All of this work is basically what produced this really long, complex, apocalyptic narrative. The stories I was making were seemingly random to me, and then I realized that I was working on this idea of a narrative, with folktale symbols. What bothered me was that all of these stories fit into a postapocalyptic narrative — I was resistant to the idea of a narrative for a long time. One day, I realized all of these little stories fit into the same world. I saw this water tank that said “Glenn Mack water storage tank,” and immediately saw within them the words “Mack Rage Tank.” Then I came up with this idea of tanks that store unwanted emotions. That’s where the story gets way too big to tell it in any reasonable amount of time.
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f Harlan Mack’s art seems pretty, you’re not looking closely enough. The painter and sculptor’s intricate figures at his current Vermont Studio Center exhibit have gaping holes where their torsos should be, and they’re painted a garish hunter orange. The welded-steel works cast eerie shadows onto the white wall behind them, adding an element of spectacle. What is most haunting, though, are the blackened steel faces welded into the shovels that each of Mack’s figures holds. These faces seem to be grimacing in pain or anguish as the shovels are worked into the ground. In the paintings that are also part of Mack’s “Forecast/Revival” exhibition, mules, rabbits, dragonflies and human figures in mostly passive poses populate bleak landscapes. Domes are also scattered around these canvases; the artist explains that these are “rage tanks” that “collect negative emotions.” Mack, 34, grew up in rural Washington, Vt., in an off-the-grid house “way up in the middle of the woods, on a mountain,” he says. In his VSC studio in Johnson, where he is working on sculptures, Mack shows a reporter the wooden trunk he built to hold dozens of paintings and drawings; each is part of the narrative behind “Forecast/ Revival.” Soft-spoken but talkative, he shares a few stories about his art.
No. 1 creates. The rage tanks collect our negative emotions, and dragonflies eat those emotions. When rage tanks start to rupture, it seems like a catastrophe, and the dragonflies are free. [Humans] find a way to live among dragonflies. But because the dragonflies have been incarcerated in the rage tanks, when they’re released, they have goldfish
Your works include depictions of oil rigs, smoldering landscapes, workers with shovels and nuclear reactors, in addition to figures who are being attacked by other figures. What type of message are you trying to convey? Everything racially is so shitty this year. Before, I was able to push things aside. Is that because Vermont is so white, or that racism here is perhaps less visible? It’s not always the easiest thing to be a person of color where it’s not very common. Growing up in a multiracial household, it was something we always talked about in my house. People call you mulatto; then one day in college I found out it means “mule.” Drawing the mule became something about how people are identified without their consent, in the same way police [ascribe attributes to] people because of their professional opinion; then that opinion becomes law. Here in Vermont, I’m black, but put me in the city and I’m black to some and not black to others. I started making Eric Garner images around the same time I started making mule images. Why do you depict Eric Garner in your art as wearing bunny slippers? The night when the grand jury decision came back, I just stared at 10 blank pieces of paper — I couldn’t paint. I wondered, would the police have killed him if he had on bunny slippers? Because wearing
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bIll JACobSoN: The award-winning new york photographer gives a talk titled “into the loving nowhere: photographs, 1989 Till now.” Room 301. williams hall, uVm, burlington, wednesday, march 11, 5:30 p.m. info, 656-2014.
f 28TH ANNuAl CHIldrEN’S ArT ExHIbITIoN AWArdS CErEmoNy: original works by young artists from burlington elementary schools. Reception: wednesday, march 18, 5-7 p.m., with awards from mayor miro weinberger at 5:45 p.m. info, 865-7166. Contois Auditorium at City hall, burlington, march 18-31, 5-7 p.m.
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f JoHN WEAvEr: oil paintings by the montpelier artist. Reception: sunday, march 15, 1-3 p.m., with live music by the Vermont Fiddle orchestra. march 15-April 19. info, 899-3211. Emile A. gruppe gallery in Jericho.
lINdA TrEASH: A opening reception for the barnard artist’s silo-themed, handprinted photographs commissioned by the vodka distillery for permanent installation. silo Distillery, windsor, saturday, march 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 234-6980.
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SCulPTor TAlK: KEvIN doNEgAN: The sculptor and artist-in-residence discusses his recent work in assemblage using new and found materials. The Carving studio, west Rutland, saturday, march 14, 5-7 p.m. info, 438-2097.
f JoNATHAN vANTASSEl: “so handsome! i know right?,” abstract large-scale paintings and photographs. Reception: Friday, march 13, 4-8 p.m. march 13-may 1. info, 828-3291. spotlight gallery in montpelier.
middlebury area bunny slippers is something you do at home, where you feel comfortable.
iNFo “Forecast/Revival” is on view through march 20 at Vermont studio Center gallery ii in Johnson. vermontstudiocenter.org
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students of Egypt’s Ramses wissa wassef Centre, shown in conjunction with a contemporary fiber-art exhibit. march 14-June 21. f ‘dIAloguE: lINdENfEld + lINdENfEld’: Ceramics by naomi lindenfeld inspired by and exhibited alongside textiles by her mother, lore Kadden lindenfeld. march 14-may 3. f ‘gATHErINg THrEAdS: CoNTEmPorAry fIbEr ArT’: The works of 13 regional textile artists, featuring unconventional materials. march 14-may 3. f doNAld SAAf: “Contemporary Folk Tales,” a solo exhibition of figurative paintings by the local artist and musician. march 14-June 21. f mICHAEl PoSTEr: photography series featuring the residents of the messianic farming community Twelve Tribes, in bellows Falls. Reception for all exhibitions: saturday, march 14, 11 a.m. info, 257-0124. brattleboro museum & Art Center.
‘ArT WITH A SPICE’: sip, socialize and make art with Kadina malicbegovic, who introduces students of all levels to her painting techniques. nectar’s, burlington, monday, march 16, 6-8 p.m. $30. info, 310-6851. TAlK WITH robErT SlIfKIN: “The Empty Room and the End of man,” a presentation that delves into the wave of minimal and postminimal monumental art created during the 1960s and 1970s. mahaney Center for the Arts, middlebury College, Tuesday, march 17, 4:30-6 p.m. info, 443-5007. ‘STEPPINg uP To THE PlATE: PErSPECTIvES oN PrINTmAKINg’: A talk followed by lunch with Diane Fine, a teaching professor of art. Reservations required by march 13. myers Fine Arts building, suny plattsburgh, n.y., wednesday, march 18, 12:15 p.m. lecture free; luncheon $18. info, 518-564-2474.
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ArT’S AlIvE 2Nd ANNuAl oPEN PHoTogrAPHy ExHIbITIoN: Thirty-six Vermont photographers who answered an open call to artists show more than 100 photographs. Through march 29. info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive gallery in burlington.
CHrISTINE WICHErT: The artist’s “Jack in the pulpit” series includes one-of-a-kind multimedia work on canvas and paper with hand- or machinesewn stitching. Through may 1. info, 862-9647. The Daily planet in burlington. ‘CIvIl WAr obJECTS from THE uvm CollECTIoNS’: heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil war period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art, and more. wilbur Room. Through may 17. ‘STArINg bACK: THE CrEATIoN ANd lEgACy of PICASSo’S dEmoISEllES d’AvIgNoN’: The exhibit explores the origins and influence of the seminal cubist painting through a selection of American, African and European contemporary art, as well as new technologies. Through June 21. ‘TrAvElErS IN PoSTWAr EuroPE’: black-and-white photographs of germany, paris, london and Venice by burlington doctor h.A. Durfee Jr. between 1951 and 1953. Through June 28. info, 656-8582. Fleming museum, uVm, in burlington. dANA SmITH: original works drawn from nature by the hawaii-born, self-taught artist. Through march 31. info, 318-2438. Red square in burlington. dJ bArry ArT: “project stencil,” spray paint on canvas works by the local artist. Through April 30. info, 658-2010. indigo salon in burlington. ImAgES from THE morAN PlANT: A celebration of the moran plant’s first artist-in-residence, mary lacy, features photographs of her murals by burlington photographer brendan Joe. Through April 9. info, 922-4398. scout & Co. in burlington. THE INNovATIoN CENTEr SHoW: group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First Floor: Ashley Veselis, Casey blanchard, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, liz Cleary, lori Arner, Robert green and scott nelson; second Floor: Elizabeth nelson, Emily mitchell, lyna lou nordstorm, michael pitts and Tom merwin; Third Floor: Jessica Drury, lynn Cummings, haley bishop, Janet bonneau, Krista Cheney and wendy James. Curated by sEAbA. Through may 31. info, 859-9222. The innovation Center of Vermont in burlington.
bryAN brISCoE: “Fruit & Flowers,” new acrylic paintings by the area artist. Through April 2. info, 518-572-2337. City market/onion River Co-op in burlington. buRlingTon shows
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Your figures with shovels, both in your sculptures and paintings, convey the sense that toil and oppression go across generations and landscapes. There’s the idea of the worker and labor, certainly. In the narrative, there are people out there who are determined to bury the rage tanks, or to uncover them. Burying a rage tank is like reverse warfare. Most people don’t know they’re there, but if I hid one around someone, it would eat their negative emotions and they would be a happier person. Digging the rage tanks up is a way to protect the tanks, because if they get overworked, they break, and then really large dragonflies are released into the world. In this narrative, I’m the guy who invented the rage tanks. If I were in this story, I would totally dig them up. m
bIll rAmAgE & bob JoHNSoN TAlK: The Castleton College professors give a presentation in conjunction with their shared exhibit, “Death and a Chair,” currently at Castleton Downtown gallery in Rutland. herrick Auditorium, Castleton College, Thursday, march 12, 12:30 p.m. info, 468-6052.
CHANCE mCNIff: “geometrically cosmic” acrylic and oil paintings, lined with ink. Curated by sEAbA. Through march 31. info, 859-9222. speeder & Earl’s: pine street in burlington.
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Katie loesel: “Piles and Passageways,” drawings and prints by the Vermont artist, who explores ideas of pilings, webs and balance. Through June 1. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.
Jason Boyd, Jordan douglas & Matt gang: Wood and mixed-media assemblages by Boyd; photographs on Infrared and black-and-white film capturing recent travels by Douglas; and works in cork and wood by Gang. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington.
Keith tatarczuK: Drawings in graphite and charcoal, watercolors and mixed-media works by the local artist. Through March 31. Info, 658-2739. Magic Hat Artifactory in S. Burlington.
Jeffrey truBisz: “Images: On the Trail,” photographs of nature from the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska and other places. Through March 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.
f ‘lines’: A juried exhibit of works that utilize lines in innovative and dynamic ways. More than 50 international photographers are represented. Reception: March 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Through March 22. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.
Jennifer Koch, susan sMereKa & elise WhitteMore: “1 x 3,” monoprints by the local artists. Through March 24. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington.
MiriaM adaMs: “Drawn to Words,” graphite drawings and watercolors about books and words. Through April 13. Info, 482-2878. Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg.
Joe PulliaM: Paintings on 19th-century ledger paper by a noteworthy Lakota artist, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Through March 31. Info, 658-3074. Mirabelles in Burlington.
nathan Benn: “Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990,” featuring evocative color images by the acclaimed National Geographic photographer. Through May 25. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.
Julie a. davis: Oil paintings and works on paper by the Burlington artist. Through April 27. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.
f Kristen tordella-WilliaMs: “Knot Work,” sculptures that employ weaving, embroidery and knotting through handmade paper, wood and mixed media, by the Mississippi-based artist. Reception: Saturday, March 14, 6-8 p.m., with a performance by Lifetime Guarantee. Through April 9. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. ONE Arts Center in Burlington. Maltex grouP shoW: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington. Meghan rayMond: “Present Tense,” encaustic paintings and small sculptural works that explore issues of privacy, identity, systems of ordering and the experience of time. Through March 31. Info, 488-5766. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington.
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nancy h. taPlin & ethan Bond-Watts: “In Motion,” abstract paintings by Taplin and glass sculptures by Bond-Watts that capture the “kinetic energy of color and light.” Through April 4. Info, 865-5355. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. sally hughes & carol shalloW: ‘Our Favorite Things,” plein-air watercolor paintings by two friends. Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. sally linder: “Within the Circle,” paintings created from the Burlington artist’s experiences in Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland and Nunavut, Canada. Open weekdays by appointment. Through March 16. Info, 860-2733. Freeman Hall Conference Room, Champlain College, in Burlington.
f ‘a shoW of hands’: The third annual exhibit of decorated wooden hands is a benefit for HANDS, a local nonprofit that helps get food to Vermont elders. Silent auction: Thursday, April 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through April 2. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.
Sandra Shenk Landscape photography, “like haiku, expresses a moment of awareness or delight connected to nature,” says Middlesex artist Sandra Shenk.
Her solo exhibition, “A Celebration of Color, Light and Form in the Southwest,” is a collection of travel and infrared photography, which includes images of Death Valley, southwestern Colorado and northern Arizona. The images will surprise viewers with their quality of painterly abstraction. On view through April 29 in the Common Space Gallery, River Arts Center, in Morrisville. Pictured: “Sand Dune Abstract #2.” ‘sPatial intuitions’: Works by Vermont artists Brooke Monte and Marilyn Maddison and out-ofstate artists Kristi Arnold and James Lentz that explore perspective, depth and pattern in several mediums. Through March 13. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. L/L Gallery, UVM, in Burlington.
uvM Medical center grouP shoW: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington.
‘taKing Pictures’: An exhibit of works past and present from artists in the Pictures Generation of the 1970s that explores appropriation and the influence of mass media. Through April 4. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington.
verMont artisans: Frame shop owners Alex and Jeremy Dostie have been collecting artwork since opening in 2011. A selection of those pieces is on view, featuring some 20 Vermont artists. Through March 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.
‘this is our shoW’: New work and collaborative paintings by Sage Tucker-Ketcham, Kristen L’Esperance and Alex Dostie. Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. toM Waters: Acrylic paintings inspired by the beauty of Vermont, by the Essex artist. Through March 28. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington. ‘traPPing Boats of laKe chaMPlain’: A trapping boat from a Panton farm and a replica boat made by Middlebury College students during a boatbuilding project led by master builder Douglas Brooks, in conjunction with Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Through March 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.
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‘the WasKoWMiuM: Where the art stoPs’: A selection of works by 45 regional artists represent Barre collector Mark Waskow’s acquisitions since 1998. Through May 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. zoe BishoP & adaM forguites: New works in oil by the local artists. Through March 29. Info, 861-2067. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington.
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BoB arns/Mutin: “Science Meets Art,” the first solo show of Mutin, a University of Vermont emeritus professor of nuclear physics, who paints at the intersection of science and art. Through April 30. Info, 879-1236. Artists’ Mediums in Williston.
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‘young verMont lifestyle’: Artwork by Mt. Mansfield Union High School students. Through April 15. Jericho Town Hall.
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‘1865, out of the ashes: assassination, reconstruction & healing the nation’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. athena Petra tasioPoulos: “Transcend,” mixed-media works utilizing found photographs that explore our shared humanity. Through March 31. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre. august Burns: “The Eyes Have It: Portraits and Figures,” an expressive collection of paintings and drawings of men and women by the accomplished portraitist. Through March 31. Info, 828-3131. Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. daniel BarloW & scott Baer: “Green Mountain Graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in Vermont. Through April 1. Info, 479-8519. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. daryl storrs: “Landscape Dreams,” woodcuts and pastels featuring landscapes of Vermont, Maine and the artist’s imagination. Through April 10. Info, 371-4375. Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. glen coBurn hutcheson: Artwork by the gallery SIX founder. Through March 31. Info, 262-2253. The Skinny Pancake (Montpelier). ‘rocK-PaPer-scissors!’: More than 15 artists exhibit works that include some aspect of the childhood game. Margaret JacoBs: “Fact and Fiction,” sculptures and drawings. Third Floor Gallery. Michelle saffran: “Remembering Our Future Death,” collages by the local artist. Second Floor Gallery. Through April 4. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. Michael t. JerMyn: “New American Impressionism,” images by the Montpelier
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call to artists 2015 south End art hop: it’s time to apply for participation in the 23rd annual south end Art hop, september 11-13! Artists, local businesses, fashion designers, food vendors and more can find application forms at seaba. com/art-hop. deadline: June 20. seAbA Center, burlington. info, 859-9222. animating infrastructurE: The Vermont Arts Council proposes to foster collaborative partnerships between communities and artists to successfully integrate public art into existing or proposed infrastructure improvement projects. eligible are proposals from municipalities, nonprofit arts and/or non-arts organizations, schools, libraries, downtown associations and more. individual artists may not apply. deadline: october 1. Vermont Arts Council, montpelier. info, 828-3291.
arEa artist show at thE chandlEr: For its perennially popular show may 2 to June 14, central Vermont artists are invited to submit a recent work. The gallery will participate in the statewide open studios on memorial day weekend, so artists will have the opportunity to demonstrate or talk about their art. Artwork will be accepted on sunday and monday, April 26 and 27, 3-5 p.m. $10 fee. For more info, contact emily Crosby at 431-0204 or gallery@ chandler-arts.org. Chandler Gallery, Randolph. call for small art: we are looking for small art to sell in the Vermont-made gift section of the store, including: art prints, cards, jewelry, pottery, sculptures and textiles. more info: vtmakeart.com/ art-exhibits/show-schedule. Artists’ mediums, williston. Through march 15. info, 879-1236. ‘of land & local’ 2015 rEquEst for proposals: Artists sought for residencies in Vermont state parks this summer for bCA’s third annual
photographer. Through April 30. info, 223-1570. Chill Gelato in montpelier. nina and craig linE: The father and daughter photographers exhibit images of the Kent museum as well as landscapes and portraits from Vermont and across the u.s., south America, the former soviet union, europe and Nepal. Through march 31. info, 223-2518. montpelier senior Activity Center. ray brown: Recent abstract oil paintings inspired by the Vermont artist’s travels in Florida and italy. Through march 31. info, 552-8620. gallery siX in montpelier.
harlan mack: “Forecast/Revival,” works made from tarpaper, paint and steel by the Vermont painter and sculptor. Through march 20. info, 635-2727. Vermont studio Center Gallery ii in Johnson.
mariEluisE hutchinson: New landscape paintings by the regional artist. Through march 31. info, 253-1818. Green mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe. michaEl ZEbrowski: ‘otwieraç,” sculpture that explores art, architecture and science through the lens of material culture, by the JsC assistant professor of art. Through April 3. info, 635-1469. Julian scott memorial Gallery, Johnson state College.
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play’: National and regional artists display work in various mediums inspired by play. Also, an ongoing collaborative art project by hundreds of local elementary school students. richard whittEn: “experiments: recent paintings and sculptures,” architecturally inspired objects and paintings in “Renaissance style.” Through April 12. info, 253-8358. helen day Art Center in stowe. ‘romancing thE gardEn’: paintings of flowers, fauna, farms, gardens, buds and blossoms from more than 50 artists, main Gallery. Also, piper strong, middle Room, and the 2014-2015 legacy Collection, east Gallery. Through march 29. info, 644-5100. bryan memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. sandra shEnk: “A Celebration of Color, light and Form in the southwest,” travel and infrared photography emphasizing the abstract in nature. sarah-lEE tErrat: “inside the Nitty Gritty — Commercial Art and the Creative process” reveals the artist’s procedure, from sketches to final products, including illustrations, paintings, toys and sculpture. Through April 29. info, 888-1261. River Arts in morrisville. ‘slopE stylE’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through october 31. info, 253-9911. Vermont ski and snowboard museum in stowe.
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bEn frank moss & varuJan boghosian: “Collage, drawing, painting,” works by the abstract and collage artists. Through April 25. info, 767-9670. bigTown Gallery in Rochester.
f EliZabEth fram: “ColoR | stories,” lively, colorful textile collages by the waterbury Center artist. Artist talk: sunday, march 15, 2 p.m. Through march 30. info, 244-6606. waterbury Congregational Church. ‘hookEd in thE vallEy’: Thirteen area artists display 36 hooked-rug pieces in a variety of styles. Through march 28. info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in waitsfield.
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Jari chEvaliEr: “whole world in pieces,” collage inlays by the local artist. Through march 26. info, 212-213-5310. Vermont studio Center in Johnson.
sEvEn bElow arts initiativE: burlington City Arts requests artist proposals for six-week residencies beginning in August. open to artists working in any visual-arts medium. info at burlingtoncityarts.org/sevenbelow-initiative. deadline: April 1. burlington City Arts. info, 865-7166.
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“subtlE, not subtlE: EvocativE nuancE”: delicate and complex paintings by marc Civitarese, Janis pozzi-Johnson and helen shulman; and sculptures by Jonathan prince. Through June 3. ‘EndlEss bEginnings: nonrEprEsEntational art today’: paintings and sculptures by 12 regional artists. Through April 19. ‘mEnagEriE: animals in art’: paintings and sculptures by 11 artists depict an array of domestic and wild creatures. Through march 29. info, 253-8943. west branch Gallery & sculpture park in stowe.
‘sEmblancE’ call to artists: Calling for portrait photography for an upcoming exhibit; juror david J. Carol. “semblance” refers to the outward appearance something or, in this case, someone. portraits can be especially dynamic when certain characteristics of a person are highlighted, coaxed into the light and captured as prized specimens. Any format acceptable. deadline: march 18. more info: darkroomgallery.com/ ex68. darkroom Gallery, essex Junction.
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Caleb Kenna: “Elemental Vermont,” photographs in the natural world by the Brandon artist. Through April 1. Info, 388-3300. American Flatbread (Middlebury Hearth).
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f ‘In ChamplaIn’s WaKe: TrappIng boaTs of The laKe ChamplaIn basIn’: Trapping boat with a replica built by high school students, including vintage trapping gear, photographs and a video of the building process led by master builder Douglas Brooks, in conjunction with a Frog Hollow State Craft Center exhibition in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, March 18, 7 p.m. Through April 11. f ‘The museum as muse for sIx VermonT poeTs: no Ideas buT In ThIngs’: A half dozen members of the Spring Street Poets Workshop — David Weinstock, Janet Fancher, Kari Hansen, Ray Hudson, Janice Miller Potter and Mary Pratt — each selected an object from the museum’s permanent collection and wrote a poem about it. The result is this unusual exhibit of artifacts and words. Reception with poetry readings: Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m. Through April 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. ‘andy Warhol prInTs’: “Recent Gifts From the Andy Warhol Foundation:” Ten vivid prints by the late pop artist including portraits of Chairman Mao, Goethe, Sitting Bull, Ingrid Bergman and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland. ‘ouTsIde In: arT of The sTreeT’: Graphic works by 19 street artists and urban legends who are now exhibiting in museums and galleries internationally. Through April 19. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art. peTer frIed: The visual artist invites visitors to his new gallery and working studio to observe his process in various media. Works are available for purchase. Through December 31. Info, peterdfried@ gmail.com. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes.
‘raIse your Cups!’: An exhibit and sale of ceramic works by local artists celebrates 40 years of pottery and arts education in Middlebury. Proceeds benefit the Middlebury Studio School’s move to a new location in March. Through March 27. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. susan alanCraIg: “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness and Loss,” photographic portraits, accompanied by audio and written excerpts of interviews given by women with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers. Through May 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.
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bIll ramage: An 11.5-by-43-foot photo-based drawing of downtown Rutland by the local artist and Castleton professor is on view by appointment. Through March 26. Info, 468-6052. 104 Merchants Row in Rutland. bIll ramage & bob Johnson: “Death and the Chair,” a dual exhibit by the artist and Castleton College philosophy professor. Through March 28. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. gene ChIlders: “Bits and Pieces,”sculptures and assemblages made into bugs, musical creations and mobiles, as well as paintings and drawings. Through April 28. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. ‘a loVe of arT’: A juried exhibition that celebrates work in diverse mediums by Chaffee’s member artists. Through March 28. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. russell serrIanne: “Natural Line,” landscapes made from clipped vines by the Glens Falls, N.Y., artist. Through March 27. Info, 468-6052. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. ‘WhaT Is loVe?’: The gallery’s annual Full House group exhibit offers diverse interpretations of and answers to the titular question. Through May 9. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.
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Winter Art MArt: Winter-inspired art in many mediums by local artists including Gayl M. Braisted, Andrew David Christie, Lyn DuMoulin, Stu Hall, Maurie Harrington, Tom Merwin, Jim Samler and Judith Reilly. Through March 29. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.
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Genie rybicki-Judkins, JiM Foote & PAt MurPhy: Pastels, paintings and wood sculpture, and paintings, respectively. Through March 31. Info, 933-2545. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.
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brennA colt: “Sheered Wit,” an exhibit of photographs, paintings and drawings. Through March 18. Info, 295-3118. Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction. ‘FArMers WArriors builders: the hidden liFe oF Ants’: A traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition featuring macro-photographs by ant expert and photographer Mark Moffett along with interactive models that teach us about the complex lives of ants. Through April 5. ‘the liGht Around us’: An exhibit that explores the physics of light and color. Through May 10. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.
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liz Guth & Gisèle MchArG: Hooked rugs by the local artists. Through March 15. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. toM schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.
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‘Get out oF this one: broken snoW reMovAl devices oF the nek’: A “brief celebration of futility” in the form of an exhibit about the rigors of snow removal in Vermont winters. Through May 31. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. MAtt brAckett: “Dark Waters/Grateful Daughters,” paintings by the Boston artist. Through March 22. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. susAn cAlzA: Sculpture and drawings by the local artist, 3rd Floor Gallery. Through April 25. Info, 472-9933. Hardwick Inn.
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susAn Goodby: Paintings and collages of northern Vermont: landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Through April 13. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.
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‘Poseidon And the seA: Myth, cult & dAily liFe’: Art and artifacts that illustrate how ancient societies in the Mediterranean world worshipped the powerful Greek god. Through March 15. Info, 603-646-2095. AllAn houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3D work from 1986-1992. Through May 11. Info, 603635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.
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‘stone PAlette’: Thirty-one lithograph prints from 19th-century France. Through March 15. ‘Wild nAture: MAsterWorks FroM the AdirondAck MuseuM’: Sixty-two paintings, photographs and prints from the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum, dating from 1821 to 2001, including work by Hudson River School masters. Through April 19. Info, 518-7921761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. susAn WhiteMAn & dAn hAusner: “Tread Softly, Travel Lightly,” paintings by Whiteman, Main Gallery; “Moments and Places,” photographs and handcrafted frames by Hausner, Community Gallery. Through March 13. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. m
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‘MArvels And MirAGes oF orientAlisM: FroM sPAin to Morocco, benJAMin-constAnt in his tiMe’: Six iconic aspects of orientalism are explored in Canada’s first museum exhibition dedicated to the genre, featuring recently rediscovered works by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, a seminal figure in the movement. Through March 31. ‘WArhol MAniA’: Fifty posters and a selection of magazine illustrations by Andy Warhol offer a brand-new look at his commercial-art background. Through March 15. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.
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diAne Fine: “Red and Other Colors,” artwork by the SUNY Plattsburgh professor. Through March 23. Info, 518-564-2474. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y.
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‘FibrAtions!’: Fiber creations by more than a dozen New England artists. Through March 30. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.
‘tWo vieWs FroM hollister hill’: Recent work in varied genres by Marshfield painters Chuck Bohn and Frederick Rudi. Through April 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.
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ard on the land wears the strong sea / and empty grows every bed.” It’s hard not to think of those lines from John Berryman’s “Dream Song 1” while watching the fourth feature directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Elena). Leviathan won the best screenplay prize at Cannes and, astoundingly, was selected as Russia’s official entry in the foreign-language Oscar race (by whom, one wonders — and has anyone seen him or her lately?). It’s set in a crumbling fishing village north of the Arctic Circle. The film opens and closes with montages of the gunmetal surf, pummeled cliffs and carcasses of wooden boats half-swallowed by the muddy tidal floor. Beside the shore, the giant skeleton of a whale sleeps among them. The place is barren, almost prehistoric. It’s also the ancestral home of a mechanic by the name of Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov). He owns a ramshackle place that he shares with his wife and son. He’s lived there all his life, as did his father and grandfather before him. It’s not much, but that doesn’t mean the mayor (Roman Madyanov) doesn’t want to take it from Kolya. The bloated, vodkaswilling bureaucrat behaves as though he’s
watched Scarface too many times, blathering about tearing the home down and building a complex to invigorate the local economy. But one gets the impression he wants the waterfront property for himself. The picture’s theme — and the reason its very existence is mystifying — is that life under Putin’s regime is a Kafkaesque nightmare. The legal system is a joke — and, as Kolya learns when he goes up against it, the joke is on him. He enlists the aid of an army buddy who’s become a Moscow attorney. Dmitriy (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) is educated and urbane. He knows the score, and briefly, it looks like there might be hope for Kolya. But then Zvyagintsev stages one of the most darkly comic courtroom scenes in movie history. While Kolya and Dmitriy look on, a magistrate speed-reads the court’s ruling. The legalese flies faster than the disclaimer at the end of a car commercial, and when it’s finished, it’s clear that Kolya is, too. But his friend has one last ace up his sleeve. Dmitriy has assembled a dossier on the mayor, and the greedy toad actually squirms when he reads the dirt that’s been dug up. Just when the mayor is about to back down, however, he’s read the riot act by, of all people, the local leader of the Russian
TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE Zvyagintsev has encouraged his countrymen to download a pirated version of his film rather than pay to watch the government-censored cut.
Orthodox Church. Meddling outsiders, the churchman warns, need to be dealt with as a lesson to the public. You literally can’t fight city hall, as Kolya and everyone around him learn the hard way. Innocent people pay an unspeakable price for trying. Friendships are tested to their breaking point. And more than one bed grows empty in the most tragic fashion imaginable. While his world collapses around him, Kolya buys bottle after bottle of vodka and absorbs hit after hit from a system even he understands is incurably corrupt. Toward the end, Serebryakov reminded me of Robert De Niro in Raging Bull at
the point when he’s a bloody pulp in boxer shorts, taking blow after blow just to prove he can. But still standing. Leviathan is about standing up, even when it’s pointless. At least I believe that’s what Zvyagintsev and cowriter Oleg Negin are getting at in this brutal, beautiful film, which Russia’s culture minister has publicly attacked as “defiling” the nation. And good for them. Somehow they made their point and got away with it. RI C K KI S O N AK
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s a rule, I’m a fan of curiosities and one-of-a-kind films, even when their kind isn’t particularly good. And there’s an undeniable uniqueness to Chappie. If you’ve seen multiple trailers for writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s third feature, you may be wondering whether it’s a cutesy comic romp about a robot developing human feelings, à la Short Circuit, or an overbearing smash-’em-up action flick. The answer is both. The South African filmmaker worked across a similar divide in his breakout first feature, District 9, in which he managed to showcase the manic sketch-comedy stylings of star Sharlto Copley while satisfying fans of both explosions and “thoughtful” science fiction. After his lackluster high-budget followup, Elysium, Blomkamp returns with Chappie to his native land and his fondness for inyour-face tonal shifts. But while his model here appears to be the glorious original RoboCop, what landed on the screen is more like a cheaper, somewhat brainier Transformers movie, both in its sugar-high pacing and its strained humor. Chappie’s early scenes nod to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film so blatantly that they can only be considered an homage. Faux news clips establish that the crime-ridden Johannesburg of the near future is patrolled by an army of metal police droids. Meanwhile, at a robot factory overseen by Sigourney Weaver,
engineer Vincent (Hugh Jackman) fumes over the poor reception of his pet project, a tank-like law enforcer that resembles RoboCop’s ED-209. And Vincent’s rival, Deon (Dev Patel) nurtures a pet project of his own: an AI with humanlike consciousness. Both men and their plotting collide with a trio of street thugs who hope to hijack and hack a police robot. When they abduct Deon, he happens to be toting both a condemned droid body and his precious consciousness program. All this sets up a surreal twist on Boyhood: The battered hunk of metal is endowed with sentience and reborn as the childlike Chappie. His “parents” are the Bonnie and Clydeesque Ninja and Yo-Landi Visser (played by South African hip-hop duo Die Antwoord using their own names). In their hideout littered with twee graffiti, the criminal pair offer Chappie a bizarre mix of nurturing, manipulation and gangsta tough love, while various ticking-clock plot factors threaten their idyll. It’s safe to say there’s never been a robot coming-of-age story quite like this.
SHOCK AND AWWW A police robot gets repurposed as a mutt-loving humanoid in Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi hybrid.
Chappie’s transformation from a clomping robot into one that scurries and hides like a frightened human child is a triumph of visual effects. (Copley supplied the voice and motion-captured physicality.) If only our hero were likable or emotionally compelling, viewers might be able to overlook Blomkamp’s frenzied, overreaching plot, full of software that works like magic and villains who act like pissy toddlers rather than rational antagonists. But, alas, this would-be lovable robot is too frenetic and whiny to command our sympathies. Given the chaotic story into which Chappie has been thrust, and the Deep Thoughts he’s asked to embody (from the puzzles of nurture to the technological singularity), one can hardly blame our robot lad for developing a neurosis or two. Indeed,
by the time the film’s explosion-packed climax arrives, one may want to sit him down for soothing milk and cookies. And one may want to remind Blomkamp, as well, that he doesn’t have to use all his cool ideas in one movie. In trying to add Spielbergian sentiment to the campy brutality of Verhoeven, he’s Frankensteined together a clanking creation whose constituent parts have lost all their power to awe or inspire. Chappie is something different, all right, and it could be one of those movies that cultists discover on cable or streaming and defend to the death. But for many moviegoers, watching it might feel too often like being booked by an ED-209 — loud, overbearing and painful. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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new in theaters ciNDEREllA: cate blanchett gets to step out as the evil stepmother in disney’s live-action retelling of the tale of a put-upon girl and a glass slipper, directed by Kenneth branagh. lily James, Richard Madden and helena bonham carter also star. (112 min, Pg. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, welden) RUN All NigHt: liam neeson plays a hitman who has one night to decide whether his loyalties lie with his estranged son (Joel Kinnaman) or his former mob boss (Ed harris) in yet another addition to his tough-guy résumé. Once again he teams up with director Jaume collet-Serra (Non-Stop, Unknown). (114 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)
now playing AmERicAN SNipERHHHH bradley cooper plays renowned navy SEal sniper chris Kyle, during and after his tours in Iraq, in this drama from director clint Eastwood. with Sienna Miller and Kyle gallner. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/14) BiRDmAN oR (tHE UNEXpEctED ViRtUE oF igNoRANcE)HHHHH Michael Keaton plays an actor who once headlined blockbusters and is now struggling to make a theatrical comeback, in this art-mirrors-life drama from director alejandro gonzález Iñárritu (Babel). with Zach galifianakis, Edward norton and Emma Stone. (119 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/12) cHAppiEHH1/2 neill blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) directed this near-future tale of a police robot with a repressive mission who finds himself reprogrammed and learning to have emotions. Sharlto copley, dev Patel and hugh Jackman star. (120 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 3/11)
FiFtY SHADES oF gREYHH1/2 One clumsy college student (dakota Johnson) plus one ridiculously young billionaire (Jamie dornan) plus some light bondage and many exclamations of “holy crap” equals E.l. James’ bestselling erotic romance, which director Sam taylor-Johnson has transferred to the screen. with Jennifer Ehle and Eloise Mumford. (125 min, R)
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tHE lAZARUS EFFEctHH documentarian david gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi) swerves over to the thriller genre with this tale of a group of med students who believe they’ve found the key to reviving the dead. That always goes well. with Olivia wilde, Mark duplass and Evan Peters. (83 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 3/4)
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lEViAtHANHHHHH In this modern take on the trials of Job, set in Putin’s Russia, a man fights the powers that be to save his remote home. director andrey Zvyagintsev’s film was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. (140 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 3/11) mcFARlAND, USAHHH Kevin costner plays a coach at a predominantly Mexican american high school who bonds with his students as he leads the cross-country team to victory in this disney sports drama. with Maria bello and Morgan Saylor. niki caro (Whale Rider) directed. (128 min, Pg)
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mR. tURNERHHHHH timothy Spall plays renowned English landscape artist J.M.w. turner (1775-1851) in this biopic from director Mike leigh (Topsy-Turvy), a four-category Oscar nominee. (150 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/28) A moSt ViolENt YEARHHH1/2 That year is 1981, when an immigrant businessman (Oscar Isaac) stakes everything on a new hQ for his new york heating business. with Jessica chastain and david Oyelowo. J.c. chandor (All Is Lost) directed. (125 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 2/4) pADDiNgtoNHHHH Michael bond’s classic children’s books come to the screen in this family flick about an anglophile Peruvian bear who seeks a new home in london. with the voices of ben whishaw, hugh bonneville and Sally hawkins. Paul King directed. (95 min, Pg) tHE SEcoND BESt EXotic mARigolD HotElHH1/2 The sequel to the 2011 comedydrama hit follows the quirky inhabitants and managers of an Indian inn as they strive to expand into a second establishment. Starring bill nighy, Maggie Smith, celia Imrie, dev Patel and newcomer Richard gere. John Madden again directed. (122 min, Pg)
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kiNgSmAN: tHE SEcREt SERVicEHHH1/2 a british street kid (taron Egerton) is tapped to become a modern-day James bond in this action comedy based on the comic by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass). with colin firth and Samuel l. Jackson. Matthew Vaughn directed. (129 min, R)
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FocUSHHH will Smith plays a veteran con artist who finds himself distracted in the middle of a job by a woman from his past (Margot Robbie) in this comedy-drama from the writing team of glenn ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love). with Rodrigo Santoro and bd wong. (104 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 3/4)
JUpitER AScENDiNgHHH andy and lana wachowski (Cloud Atlas) bring us this sci fi epic about a drudge (Mila Kunis) who discovers she’s the heir to a mysterious power on another world. with channing tatum and Eddie Redmayne. (127 min, Pg-13)
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tHE DUFFHHH when a teen (Mae whitman) discovers that her supposed bffs call her the designated ugly fat friend, she sets out to turn the high school caste system on its head, in this adaptation of Kody Keplinger’s novel. with bella Thorne and Robbie amell. ari Sandel directed. (100 min, Pg-13)
FoXcAtcHERHH1/2 Eccentric multimillionaire John E. du Pont (Steve carell) hires two wrestler brothers (channing tatum and Mark Ruffalo) to coach a winning Olympic team in his mansion in this fact-based drama from director bennett Miller (Capote). (129 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/21)
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tHE tHEoRY oF EVERYtHiNGHHHH1/2 Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife, Jane, in this adaptation of the latter’s memoir of their marriage. James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. (123 min, PG-13) tWo DAYS, oNE NiGHtHHHH Marion Cotillard received an Oscar nod for her portrayal of a working-class mom forced to appeal directly to her coworkers when her job is on the chopping block. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L’Enfant) wrote and directed the Belgian drama. (95 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 2/25) UNFiNiSHED BUSiNESSH1/2 In this comedy, Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson play business associates whose working trip to Europe turns into an outrageous odyssey of (the studio probably hopes) Hangover proportions. Ken Scott (Delivery Man) directed. (91 min, R)
WHiplASHHH1/2 Miles Teller plays a jazz-drumming student who clashes with his perfectionist instructor (J.K. Simmons) in this buzzed-about festival hit from writer-director Damien Chazelle. With Melissa Benoist and Paul Reiser. (107 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/19)
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Did you miss: the one i love The Lazarus Effect, currently in theaters, stars Mark Duplass as a scientist trying to resurrect the dead and his relationship with Olivia Wilde. Rick Kisonak’s review suggests the film is eminently missable. So I hopped on Netflix and checked out a less predictable movie that also happens to feature Duplass grappling with love troubles. SEVENDAYSVt.com
Ethan (Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss of “Mad Men”) are trying to rekindle that elusive spark in their marriage. They re-create the events of the night they first met, but they just aren’t feeling the thrill anymore… In the Movies You Missed & More feature every Friday, I review movies that were too weird, too cool, too niche or too terrible for vermont's multiplexes. Should you catch up with them on DvD or vOD, or keep missing them?
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Can a notoriously racist film escape its troubled past? In the case of Disney's notorious 1946 film Song of the South, the answer is a resounding No. Which is why this is still the Film that Disney Doesn't Want You to See. One career ago, I was a professor of film studies. I gave that up to move to vermont and write for Seven Days, but movies will always be my first love. In this feature, published every Saturday on Live Culture, I write about the films I'm currently watching, and connect them to film history and art.
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British police investigating the theft of tools and a shower stall from a homeremodeling project in Crawley arrested Ryan Marsh, 18, after he returned to the job site and tried to sell the items back to the contractor. (Britain’s Crawley News) Police looking for the man who beat up a woman in Ambridge, Pa., and held her captive for 12 hours, found him trying to flee town by bus. An hour after the victim called 911, suspect Donald Harrison, 22, posted the Facebook message, “IT’S TIME TO LEAVE PA.” The next day, she told police she spotted Harrison’s selfie on Facebook, announcing, “OMW TO SPARTANSBURG SC.” The Spartanburg bus had just left, so officers caught up to it and arrested Harrison. “We like it when dumb criminals assist in our investigation,” police Chief James Mann said, noting the Pittsburgh suburb has already been featured on “World’s Dumbest Criminals” for “a couple of things.” (Beaver County Times)
Hole-Diggery
Japan’s 15th annual hole-digging championships awarded 100,000 yen (US$830) to a team from Saitama that dug down 11.4 feet in the allotted 30 minutes. A record 305 teams entered this year’s event, tournament official Ai Okazaki said, adding, “It takes about a week for our staff to gradually refill the holes.” (Agence France-Presse)
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Second-Amendment Follies
Authorities accused Stefanie Felicia Stern, 28, of leaving her 3-year-old daughter alone in a liquor store in Deerfield Beach, Fla., while she left to hide a handgun after her boyfriend shot himself in the leg. Her arrest warrant said boyfriend Reginald Leon Lee, 34, got into an argument with another customer and chased him out by waving his gun. While putting the gun back in his waistband, he fumbled, and the weapon accidentally fired. Lee claimed a stranger had shot him, but surveillance video proved otherwise. It showed Stern running out with the gun but without the child. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
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Car, Where’s My Dude?
Ride-hailing service Uber announced it is teaming up with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to research driverless vehicles. Uber boss Travis Kalanick said not having to pay a driver would make Uber so cheap that users wouldn’t need to own a car. (Economist)
When Guns Are Outlawed
While delegates at a United Nations disarmament forum in Switzerland were discussing ways to improve transparency, the delegate from Belarus warned that opening meetings to the public posed a threat to security. “What if there were topless ladies screaming from the public gallery throwing bottles of mayonnaise?” the diplomat asked. (Reuters)
Grand Dupery
Two convenience store employees almost destroyed the premises after receiving a call from someone claiming to be the store’s security company. Police in Globe, Ariz., said the caller told the workers the silent fire alarm was going off and that to stop it, they had to discharge fire extinguishers in the store, throw the extinguishers through the windows and then destroy merchandise, computers, registers and security televisions, all while customers were shopping. It was when they were told to destroy the computers that the pair suspected the call was a prank. Damage amounted to $30,000, and the store closed for 12 hours to clean up the mess. “They thought they were acting righteously,” police Sgt. A.J. Castaneda said. (Phoenix’s KSAZ-TV)
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The Utah Court of Appeals ruled that Barbara Bagley could sue herself. The case involves the wrongful death of her husband, Bradley Vom Baur, in a car crash near Battle Mountain while she was driving and lost control of the vehicle. As the designated representative of her husband’s estate, Bagley is suing Bagley the driver for negligence. “She has to look out for the estate,” said Reid Tateoka, one of the attorneys representing the widow as plaintiff. Her attorneys as defendant moved to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing, “The jury will be highly confused. It cannot order a person to compensate herself.” (Salt Lake Tribune) • Sharlene Simon, 42, acknowledged plowing into three bicyclists on a country road outside Innisfil, Ontario, killing one of them, but is suing the victim’s estate, his parents, the County of Simcoe and the two other bicyclists, one of whom was seriously injured. Simon claims the three teenagers were negligent riding their bikes in the middle of the road at 1:30 a.m. Labeling them “incompetent bicyclists,” the suit claims the crash, which occurred while Simon was driving 56 mph in a 50 mph zone, caused her $1.35 million (US$1.07 million) worth of emotional trauma. Her husband, who was following her, is also suing, claiming emotional trauma. (Canada’s QMI Agency)
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(April 20-May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de fermat declared that he had solved the Last Theorem, a particularly knotty mathematical problem. unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.
Pisces
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In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.
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gemiNi (May 21-June 20): your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. you may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow. caNceR (June 21-July 22): As soon as a
leo (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at new york clubs. to accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. by 1963, his career had
ViRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): “Whoever travels
without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! on other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. but right now, Virgo, I believe the sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an adviser, teacher, or role model.
liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): There’s a meme rolling around tumblr and facebook that goes like this: “everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. but if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be? scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): I have taken
a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anaïs nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored
always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. you asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.”
sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): one of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. so what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy? caPRicoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will survive” in 1978. It sold over two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the b-side of “substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering. Luckily, radio DJs ignored “substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be preeminent. aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): I’m tempted
to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. but that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. so here’s my wiser advice: to prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.
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(March 21-April 19): In the old superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If superman fooled him into saying his own name backward. you might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid
baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes 10 years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.
skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. but he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. for the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass and keyboards. some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?
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Dear Athena,
My boyfriend and I live together. I love him, but he’s always spending time at his parents’ house. At first it was about not being able to practice his drums in our apartment because of neighbors. I found other cheap spaces to practice — I’m also a musician — but he hasn’t budged. He’s not just “working” at his parents’; he’s having coffee, chatting, helping his dad with his computer, going grocery shopping with his mom, etc. He spends less and less time at our home. I have to call him now and ask if he will be eating my dinner or his mom’s. I also bear the cost of the practice space. He is more than 40 years old, and I feel like I’m living with a man-child. When I told him how I felt, he said I was jealous and that there was nothing wrong with him being close to his parents. But I can’t imagine planning a future (marriage, children, etc.) with someone who is still so dependent on his parents. No one else I know spends so much time at “home” at this age.
Sincerely,
Future Mrs. Man-Child
Dear Mrs. Man-Child,
The good news is that you know what you want — a partner who is available and grown up. But it’s going to take some serious work to find out if the partner you already have can measure up. Let’s look on the bright side first. Many people would be pleased as punch to have a partner who is so close with his parents. It’s a lot more complicated when someone is on the outs with their family. If you do decide to marry and have children, it will be really nice for you to have his family around to support you. And it’ll be good for the kids to know their grandparents in an intimate way. What is it about their closeness that really bothers you? Is it possible that you do feel a little jealous, or left out? Perhaps if you get to know his folks a little better, you’ll see what all the fuss is about. Your boyfriend is who he is in great part because of how they raised him. And you chose him for some of those reasons. They have to be pretty great, no? Perhaps your approach needs tweaking. It’s not fair to make him choose between you and his parents. Tell him that you miss him and want to share more of your life together, rather than asking him to spend less time with them. As far as the practice space goes, he may be more interested if you tell him that playing there is an experience you want to share with him. Or maybe it’s time to give up the space. If you practice at home and he practices at his parents’, that’s not such a bad thing. It’s healthy for couples to have some alone time — and it gives you something to talk about when you’re together. If this doesn’t resonate, perhaps it’s time for you to step back — spend a weekend away with friends or your own family — and see if this relationship is worth the work. Time and distance might provide the answers you need.
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AdirondACker 7 dAYs Ad I have seen your ad for a while now. The dogs, the Deere, the dude thing going on. If nothing else, we might make each other laugh. And with that, not feel as alone in the world. No picture here, but a thousand pictures are no replacement for 49 words. when: wednesday, January 1, 2014. where: seven days personals. You: man. me: woman. #912793
preCious mAn Platinum and diamonds; choosing one amazingly beautiful gown; yummy dinner; dessert by candlelight; hot, relaxing shower. Can my day get any sweeter? I am forever your cupcake! when: saturday, february 28, 2015. where: at the love shack. You: man. me: woman. #912787
VerY Hot At flower sHow Around 2 p.m. Really hot guy standing with friend in main room, not far from entrance. Long, gorgeous hair — light brown? Hard to tell the color indoors. Our eyes caught just for a moment; I looked away too quickly. You were wearing light blue jeans. I wore dark jeans. If interested, tell me what you were eating and something about me. when: friday, february 27, 2015. where: Vermont flower show. You: man. me: woman. #912786 BAe... Your hair was in a long fishtail braid. I could talk to you all night about “House of Cards.” You’re an absolute babe, and I want to get to know you better. when: saturday, february 28, 2015. where: radio Bean. You: woman. me: woman. #912785 lettinG You flY, musiC mAn It was bollocks. We couldn’t share it out loud and we both wanted to. You are free and untamed. I’m ruled and stuck. You pushed, I pulled. Your music was my desire. You used your charm. It worked. In the end it hurt. If you fought hard, I would’ve too. Now it’s quiet. The sound is turned off. I know you’ve found elsewhere. Although I miss it, I’m letting you fly. You deserve it. ? when: saturday, september 13, 2014. where: Burlington waterfront. You: man. me: woman. #912784 Hi, mY future eVerYtHinG You are truly the most amazing man ever! So sexy, so true. I’m so blessed to be loved by you! Is that bells I hear ringing or the pounding of my heart? Forever yours, my sweetness! K when: friday, february 27, 2015. where: in my arms. You: man. me: woman. #912783 JetBlue to Jfk I sat next to you on the flight. I just wanted to thank you for the nice conversation and your incredible smile. I did end up having that beer before my connecting flight to Florida. when: friday, february 20, 2015. where: JetBlue flight from BtV to Jfk. You: woman. me: man. #912780
mike... That’s an interesting date you picked: 2013. My name is Mike, but I doubt you’re talking to me. Regardless of who Mike is, you should focus on your present happiness and wisdom. Let go of the past because dwelling is a trap. If you’re worth fighting for, ask to be chased. If you asked to be left alone, you got it. when: friday, february 27, 2015. where: i spy. You: woman. me: man. #912782 i Just CAme to dAnCe Hey, Jesse, I had a great time dancing around with you at the show! It was my pleasure to meet you. I loved your style and would’ve liked to get your number. Alas, I dropped the ball on that one. All the same, that was great fun. when: Thursday, february 26, 2015. where: nectar’s. You: woman. me: man. #912781 tHAnks, JCp I can’t believe it’s been a year since I walked through a set of glass doors on a cold night and fell into the ocean of your gorgeous blue eyes. Thanks for the fun, the laughs, the adventure, the affection and the joy. When I’m with you, the world melts away. I’m so lucky to have you in my life. when: Thursday, february 27, 2014. where: Cherry st. You: man. me: woman. #912779 Hi, mY future wife! I spy the most beautiful woman, cooking dinner and looking beautiful! I would like this to be forever! when: Thursday, february 26, 2015. where: in a kitchen, cooking. You: woman. me: man. #912778 let’s tAlk I just saw you in Healthy Living with an elderly woman. You were helping her shop. You are tall, beautiful, with short dark hair. I was behind you and you commented on the pies I had in my basket. How about coffee? when: wednesday, february 25, 2015. where: Healthy living. You: woman. me: man. #912777 trYinG to keep wArm Waiting for the Williston bus on a painfully cold Tuesday afternoon, you kicked relentlessly at the ice in an effort to keep the frostbite at bay, or maybe just out of rage at the neverending winter. Whatever the reason, it was very endearing and you’re incredibly cute. I hope you ended up someplace warm. when: tuesday, february 24, 2015. where: uVm bus stop, main st. You: woman. me: man. #912776 CitY HAll pArk town pHoto To the guy during the town anniversary photo who asked everyone to wave, then took a photo: I would like a copy of that photo you got. I think your picture would be the best. Thanks. when: saturday, february 21, 2015. where: City Hall park steps. You: man. me: man. #912773
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