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The fourth Champlain Mini Maker Faire takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27, at Shelburne Farms.

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physical spaces where they can work together. “The maker movement is really about taking back control of our consumerism, being more thoughtful about our relationship to the things that we use,” says Ken Howell, the interim director of Champlain College’s MFA in Emergent Media. Seven Days peered into the Burlington area’s wild and woolly maker scene, which seems to be growing exponentially — just like the technology that fuels it.

Vermont’s “makers” — a term that originated in the early 2000s, meaning any amateur or professional inventor of physical objects — are farmers, programmers, artists, educators and kids. Thanks to the formation of Vermont Makers; the unveiling of the University of Vermont’s new fabrication laboratory, or “fab lab”; and the announcement of the first Champlain Maker Faire in September, the state’s makers have been emerging, sharing ideas, collaborating on projects and developing

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Exquisite Chinese instruments in a grand Western orchestra. Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra blends Eastern and Western musical traditions in a concert experience unlike any other. Majestic movements convey tales of divine beings descending to Earth. Lilting notes evoke the elegance of ladies at imperial court. Traditional dance rhythms from Tibetan plateaus reverberate through the concert hall. Shen Yun performs soul-stirring original works, with solos by the world’s top Chinese tenors and sopranos. Concert highlights also include Western masterpieces by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Sarasate.

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From apple cider and pesto to pulled pork and watermelon, cyclists sample the bounty of Addison County on the Tour de Farms. Now in its eighth year, the pastoral pedaling party features 37- and 27-mile bike routes with 25 farms and restaurants offering riders energizing morsels along the way.

Richard Olate adopted his first stray dog as a 10-year-old boy in Chile. Now, he’s pack leader of the Olate Dogs Rescue Tour 2015 (pictured), featuring a troupe of high-energy performing pups. The Season 7 winners of “America’s Got Talent” hop, flip, sprint and leap across the stage in a display of doggy dexterity combined with human acrobatics and comedy. Woof!

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Tinkering Around Mark your calendar for two days of drone derbies, rocket launches and robot battles at the Champlain Mini Maker Faire. More than 50 makers set up shop for a celebration of science and technology offering amateur inventors the chance to learn, create and innovate. Appearances by STEM supporter Miss Vermont add star power to this familyfriendly technological festival.

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The Green Mountain State is alive with the sound of music. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour kicks off this Friday in Johnson with a rich program showcasing works by Sibelius, Grieg, Mozart and Bach. Adding local flavor to the lineup is the premier of Jennifer Jolley’s Vermont-themed piece “The Ferry Crossing.”

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Listen to the Internet, and it’s like you’re hearing the past, present and future of R&B music all at once. Led by vocalist Syd Tha Kyd and producer Matt Martians, the group fuses modern electronic and hip-hop elements with the live instrumentation and feeling of oldschool funk and soul. Check out songs from 2015’s Ego Death at Signal Kitchen.

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Jeremy Lee MacKenzie first discovered wood scrollwork in a prison workshop. During his eight years behind bars, MacKenzie secretly mapped out what would become “Hidden Blueprints,” a series of large-scale scenes carved with intricate geometric patterns incorporating themes of youth, duality and the passage of time. The panels are on view at the Flynn Center’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery.

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The Education of Matt Dunne

ast spring, former senator MATT DUNNE seemed to be one of the few Democrats ready and willing to challenge Gov. PETER SHUMLIN for the state’s top office. The Hartland resident and Google exec spent months courting political insiders over coffee and showed up at the Statehouse conspicuously often for a guy who hadn’t served in the building for nearly a decade. In a June interview with Seven Days — a week before Shumlin announced his plans to retire — Dunne pointedly declined to say whether he’d support the governor’s reelection. Now that Shummy’s out, Dunne still seems to be running against the leader of his own party. On VPR’s “Vermont Edition” last week, the 45-year-old gubernatorial candidate repeatedly argued that the state’s economy “is not working” for Vermonters and said he’d “bring new management to state government that I think we can all agree we could use right now.” In a follow-up interview with Seven Days, Dunne added, “I think it’s safe to say that there have been examples of where 4:07 PMnot having the kind of experience that I have — and people that I would pull into an administration would have — has led to some problems.” Such as? “I think the most obvious example is the exchange website,” he said, referring to Vermont Health Connect. “Peter Shumlin has lots of experience that I would not bring to the governor’s office — but I have a different set of experiences.” While Dunne’s anti-Shumlin strategy might disappoint die-hard Dems, it should help him in the general election to defuse GOP attempts to tie him to an unpopular incumbent. More immediately, it’s a way to differentiate himself from his two Democratic primary opponents: former transportation secretary SUE MINTER, who served in the Shumlin administration; and House Speaker SHAP SMITH, who helped pass key portions of Shumlin’s agenda. Case in point: education reform. Aside from health care, the most divisive issue in Vermont right now appears to be Act 46, the education governance overhaul currently dominating school board agendas throughout the state. Smith and Shumlin fought to pass it last June — and Dunne is dead set against it. “It’s really not working,” Dunne told VPR, calling it “an unfortunate piece of legislation passed with the very best intentions.” Pitched as a way to address rising property taxes and declining school enrollment, Act 46 provides incentives for the state’s

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tiny, overlapping school districts to merge, starting next summer, and forces most to do so by 2019. Proponents say it’ll eventually slow the growth of education spending by making it easier for neighboring towns to share resources — and, though nobody wants to say it, by closing schools. In the meantime, the law sets a variable cap on per-pupil spending increases for two years, in an effort to provide immediate tax relief. Dunne criticizes the law as “just too aggressive.” He says it’s forcing communities to make “unbelievably fast” decisions about the future of their schools in order to create districts with at least 900 students — a number Dunne calls “arbitrary.” He worries the temporary spending caps will hurt Vermont’s smallest school districts, whose per-pupil expenses can skyrocket as a result of losing just a few kids.

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So what does that say about Speaker Smith, the guy who staked his reputation on the law’s passage? “What I heard from the speaker was that at one point he hoped it would decrease property taxes and at a different point this was an effort to make sure towns would have higher-quality education for their kids,” Dunne says. “I think in actual practice, the end legislation essentially will do neither.” Smith says he stands by Act 46, though he adds, “As with any major piece of legislation, there are going to be things we’re going to need to tweak.” As for Dunne’s criticism? “Here’s the thing: If you’ve been in the mix, you’ve had to make tough decisions and you’ve had to lead,” Smith says. “It’s easier to be on the outside and criticize what’s been done. It’s harder to be on the inside and move things forward.” Fair point, though “Mr. Insider” isn’t exactly the best campaign slogan. Minter, the third Democrat in the race, appears to be positioning herself between her two rivals. In an interview with Seven Days last week, she said she “support[s] the goals of Act 46” but is “concerned” about the spending caps. Not long after the interview ended, she called back to strike a tougher tone. “There really are a lot of issues that are potentially unintended consequences of the

bill that the legislature is going to have to review,” she clarified. Shumlin’s spokesman, SCOTT CORIELL, didn’t respond to a request for comment on Dunne’s remarks, but his secretary of education, REBECCA HOLCOMBE, defends the law. Its “single biggest contribution,” she says, has been “forcing us all to have hard, incredibly important and long-overdue conversations” about the future of education in Vermont. At least 46 local committees are meeting to discuss consolidation options, Holcombe says, and she expects a handful to take advantage of the fast-track incentives in the coming months. Just weeks ago, she notes, Essex, Essex Junction and Westford became the first towns in the state to submit a consolidation proposal under the new law — promising $1 million in savings over the course of five years. “I would say this bill’s not even, what, six months old?” Holcombe says. “I think it’s a little premature to say whether it’s successful or not. Let’s give it time to work.” It’s also probably a little premature to say how the politics of Act 46 will shake out. While the law’s uncertainties have generated many a heated headline, new data out of the Castleton Polling Institute indicate that Vermonters aren’t ready to storm the Statehouse with pitchforks. Asked whether they support Act 46, described as “state actions to encourage school districts to merge for operational efficiencies,” 59 percent said they did, while 28 percent said they didn’t. Of course, those numbers could change quickly this fall as Vermonters confront the law’s complexities in their own communities. Interestingly, Castleton found that Democrats were only marginally more likely than Republicans to support Act 46. And a similar debate appears to be germinating in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Though Act 46 “didn’t go far enough,” Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT says, “I think it’s a step forward in accomplishing something.” Not so, argues Scott’s sole declared rival for the GOP nomination, retired Wall Street banker BRUCE LISMAN. He says the law should be repealed, because, “It will increase property taxes and initiate a state-enforced consolidation policy.” Like Dunne, Lisman’s trying his damnedest to tie his primary rival to Shummy. “Vermont needs change,” Lisman says. “If we let Gov. Shumlin, Lt. Gov. Scott and the usual group of politicians continue to do the usual thing, we’ll continue to get the usual results.”

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Sen. Bernie SanderS (I-Vt.) has had little trouble talking rank-and-file Democrats into supporting his surging presidential campaign. He’s now the — wait for it — front-runner in Iowa and New Hampshire, and he’s holding his own in national polls. But, no surprise, the guy who penned a memoir called Outsider in the House is having trouble courting the insiders who play a major role in selecting the Democratic nominee. Of the nearly 4,500 delegates who will cast a vote at next July’s Democratic National Convention, an estimated 713 of them are so-called “superdelegates” — party muckety-mucks who can vote however they please. And according to Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin and Jennifer epStein, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign claimed last month that it had already secured more than 440 commitments from that crowd. The Clinton campaign won’t confirm its delegate count on the record, but the Hill has been keeping track of the endorsements of one block of superdelegates: Democratic members of Congress. Clinton has 119 of them, while Sanders has, um, none. Well, maybe one. Though the independent senator has never served as a Democratic superdelegate before, senior adviser tad devine and Vermont Democratic Party executive director Conor CaSey say they believe Sanders will be named one this year. Which is nice and all. But even among Vermont’s superdelegates, Sanders isn’t doing so hot. If both he and former Democratic National Committee chair Howard dean are given slots, Vermont will send nine superdelegates to the convention, according to Casey. Of those, four are backing Clinton, three are undecided and two — including Sanders himself — are backing the hometown hero. Clinton’s committed superdelegates include Dean, Gov. Shumlin, Sen. patriCk leaHy (D-Vt.) and national committeewoman Billi GoSH of Brookfield. “Since 1980 I’ve been pushing to get more women involved in politics,” says Gosh, who’s attended every convention since 1984. “I can just feel that maybe we’re gonna do it this time.” Vermont’s undecideds include VDP chair dottie deanS of Pomfret and vice chair tiM JerMan of Essex Junction. Both traveled to the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s state convention last weekend and say they walked away impressed with both candidates. “Hillary was awesome. I was very, very impressed by her speech,” Deans says. “Bernie was great, as always.” Perhaps staying neutral for now is wise. Both Deans and Jerman face reelection to their posts in November. If they backed one of the presidential candidates too soon, supporters of another could try to topple them.

Then there’s Congressman peter welCH (D-Vt.), the highest-ranking Democrat in Vermont to avoid endorsing. “I have believed from the beginning that this campaign was going to take some surprising twists and turns. I want to see it develop,” he says. “I have immense respect for Bernie. I have immense respect for Hillary, too, and [Vice President Joe] Biden.” Why wait to weigh in? It’s not like Welch doesn’t know his options. Dude ran in the same congressional race as Sanders in 1988, endorsed him in 1990 and has served alongside him since 2006. “In ’90, the real question was whether the Democrats were going to run somebody and make it a three-way race,” Welch explains, referring to the year the independent beat Republican incumbent Congressman peter SMitH. “I thought that was a very bad idea.” Is Welch just being politically cautious? After all, Shumlin got slammed for his illtimed endorsement of Clinton just days before Sanders announced his candidacy. “I would say ‘respectful,’” Welch clarifies. “If anything, when you look back at the timing of [Leahy’s and Shumlin’s] endorsements, the quote-unquote ‘safe’ decision was to endorse the ‘inevitable nominee.’ And I didn’t do that. So I would say it’s respect for the voters.” Sanders has picked up one Vermont superdelegate other than himself: Democratic committeeman riCH CaSSidy. The Burlington lawyer says he wrote Sanders nine months before the senator announced, urging him to join the race. “I am absolutely delighted he’s willing to take this challenge on,” Cassidy says. “I think his effort is tremendously important, and I could not be more supportive.” Is Clinton’s superdelegate lead insurmountable? According to Halperin and Epstein, “Barring some major scandal or controversy, and given Hillary and Bill Clinton’s long-standing ties to Democratic Party elites, overcoming her superdelegate edge would be quite a challenge” for Sanders or Biden, the latter of whom hasn’t said whether he’ll run. But Devine, Sanders’ senior adviser, argues quite the opposite. “They can say they’ve got everybody, as far as I’m concerned,” he says. “I don’t view that as a real obstacle, because if Bernie does really well and wins with the voters, the pressure on superdelegates to step back from the process is going to be enormous.” Devine notes that Clinton had a hefty superdelegate lead over BaraCk oBaMa eight years ago, but the party eventually coalesced around the guy who won more delegates at the ballot box. “I do wish we had 800 superdelegates right now,” Devine says. “That would make it easier. But that’s never been the path for Bernie.” m

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Wearing a sleeveless dress and Birkenstocks, Flack-Matthews said she’s trying to make her farm a place to learn about permaculture as well as a destination for flower-seeking brides. She worries that a large vat of manure across the road will keep people away. Even before the pit appeared, Flack-Matthews said, she’s had customers return flowers on several occasions, complaining that they smelled of manure from Brisson’s fields. Brisson has been dairy farming for 40 years, accumulating 11 farms as

contemporaries have thrown in the towel. Allandra Farm now consists of 2,000 acres of corn and hay fields located in four towns, and 1,900 cows, which produce roughly 10 million gallons of manure a year. The sprawling ag operation has a large-farm permit, which requires Brisson to have a “nutrient management plan” — “nutrients” is the polite term for cow poop — and means that he must get state approval to construct pits or make other changes to his plan.

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t’s no secret Vermont dairy farms are major contributors to the phosphorus runoff that is polluting Lake Champlain. In particular, the way they dispose of copious amounts of cow manure has come under increasing scrutiny. That’s why the State of Vermont gave Allan Brisson, the 61-year-old proprietor of Allandra Farm, a $65,000 grant to construct a manure pit and make other upgrades on his land in Ferrisburgh. Sitting in the air-conditioned cab of his 450-horsepower tractor, Brisson explained that the state bans spreading manure on fields from mid-December to April because wet and frozen soils result in more runoff. Farms need to store their cow shit somewhere in the meantime. Increasingly, farmers are putting manure in “satellite pits” located close to the fields where it will ultimately end up. This makes it easier to spread when weather conditions are favorable and reduces manure-truck traffic. But in Ferrisburgh, Brisson’s “poo pit,” as it’s been dubbed, has incited a civil war between conflicting agricultural interests. Residents of the bucolic Addison County town are taking sides in mudslinging online comments and in old-fashioned altercations at selectboard meetings. Striding through rows of zinnias and marigolds, the owner of Flower Power farm rattles off her concerns about the large crater in the cornfield across the road from her operation. The 160-footdiameter pit is currently empty, but eventually it will hold up to 2 million gallons of liquid manure. Anne Flack-Matthews, 54, said she worries that ammonia-like fumes will permeate her flowers and the value of her property will decline. She is also concerned that during spring floods, the pit could overflow. Fourteen years ago, Flack-Matthews left her family-owned garden center in Pennsylvania and bought a house and an old dairy barn on Ferrisburgh’s Middlebrook Road. Succulents grow in pots, there are small jars of mint for sale and hand-painted wooden signs direct visitors around the 22-acre hillside farm. In addition to flowers, she has planted apple, pear, plum and peach trees, grows vegetables and hops, raises chickens, and cares for a coterie of rescue animals, including several horses, llamas and donkeys.

Laura DiPietro, deputy director of the Agricultural Resource Management Division, confirmed that Brisson called the agency as required, and it dispatched an engineer to help him determine the Ferrisburgh pit’s placement. DiPietro emphasized the rigor of the approval process: The soil underwent lab tests, and the agency verified the site wasn’t in a floodplain and was at least 100 feet away from adjacent properties. Brisson, wearing a Chevy baseball cap and jeans with holes around both knees, considers himself an early adopter when it comes to responsible spreading. He has embraced dragline-hose equipment, which transports manure from pits to spreading equipment in the fields, rather than using a heavy manure tanker that compacts the soil as it drives. When possible, he said, he also uses injectors, which shoot manure below the soil’s surface instead of “top dressing” the field. Both techniques increase absorption of nutrients. That is good for both Lake Champlain — because it reduces phosphorous runoff — and for his bottom line, Brisson pointed out. “It’s a valuable resource,” he said. “If you smell manure, I’m losing money in fertilizer.” The pit, he added, will hardly smell: “If you’re not disturbing it, it just kind of crusts over.” In an email, state Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross assured nearby property owners that Brisson had followed all state and federal requirements and was “in good standing” with the agency. “I went through the whole process!” Brisson exclaimed. But that doesn’t mean neighbors are comfortable with having what FlackMatthews calls a “mega-lagoon” of manure nearby. Tim Mathewson, who lives next to Flack-Matthews and can see the pit from his porch, said he is also worried about its impact on property values and the lake. He said he’s seen that location flood every year, and he suggested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s floodplain map, charted in 1986, was outdated. “I don’t have an environmental degree,” he said. “I just know the environment because I live in it every day.” Both the Otter and Lewis creeks run through the fertile land around Ferrisburgh, which hosts nearly 30 working farms and claims 21 miles of

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 5-9PM excavators started digging. He pointed out that if someone wanted to build a house nearby, zoning regulations require that the town notify neighbors in advance, usually through a letter in the mail. But a massive pool of manure can surface next door with no notice. Because of the size of Brisson’s pit, he needed a stormwater permit from the Agency of Natural Resources, which meant town officials did post his application at the town offices and in the Addison County Independent. But few people make a habit of reading municipal notices. As the state continues to promote satellite pits, Vogel expects other farmers will encounter resistance. He thinks the legislature should require better notification.

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Mathewson echoed Vogel’s proposal. Asked what kind of notification he’d want, he said, “I think a letter to the door. And in a perfect world, I think a knock on the door.” Brisson, who plans to build another pit in Monkton, doesn’t support more citizen involvement. Brisson said his farming practices have never upset neighbors before, and he doesn’t think he’ll run into similar problems in the future. Still, he argued, “I shouldn’t have to fight this battle.” He noted that Vermont passed its “right to farm” law to protect farmers like him from lawsuits stemming from neighbor disputes. Are the officials in charge open to the idea of alerting neighbors to a proposed pit? Ag officials, who said they’ve haven’t previously dealt with objections to manure pits, suggested it would be up to the town to change notification procedures. The Ferrisburgh selectboard didn’t respond to an inquiry, but they’ve repeatedly told the pit opponents where to take their complaints — to the state. m

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Lake Champlain shoreline. The connection between agriculture and aquaculture is as clear as it is in the Franklin County towns along the phosphorousrich Missisquoi River. But Brisson and the state maintain that the pit, which is surrounded by a 7-foot-tall dirt berm, is “absolutely not in the floodplain.” Brisson acknowledged that each spring most of the field floods, but he insisted that the spot where the pit is located — 2,500 feet from Little Otter Creek, he estimates — never does. Flack-Matthews has gone to great lengths to stop the pit. She’s contacted Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a Penn State manure specialist and even Martha Stewart, who she considers an inspiration. She’s hired lawyer James Dumont to review her legal options. She’s painted “Stop the Poo Pit” signs and flagged down cars to convert drivers to her cause. Supporters started a Facebook page that has roughly 460 members. The dispute between neighbors has mushroomed into what some have framed as a flatlander versus farmer melee. Both sides have accused the other of harassment. On a rival Facebook page, called “Keep the Poo Pit,” which has approximately 1,800 members, FlackMatthews — who has criticized “big ag” practices — has been disparaged as an out-of-stater with no appreciation for Vermont’s dairy industry. A friend of hers abandoned plans to make a documentary film about the dispute after receiving a deluge of phone calls and Facebook messages, including one from someone who said he hoped his “hippie pile of shit family” would die. Brisson distanced himself from the effort, saying that he doesn’t know many of the people who’ve come to his defense. He did say that it’s been “extremely gratifying” to see young people who are enthusiastic about farming. Matt Vogel’s property also abuts the pit, although his house is roughly half a mile away. Initially he reached out to local officials expressing strong opposition to it. But after learning more about manure storage and talking with Brisson on the phone, he decided not to fight it. “Allan Brisson did everything by the book,” he said. Vogel thinks much of the drama could have been avoided if neighbors had gotten a heads-up before the

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im Rader remembers the first time Bernie Sanders hit the airwaves as a political candidate. It was 1971 and Sanders, the Liberty Union Party nominee for U.S. Senate, gave a radio interview. Afterward, Rader told Sanders that he’d done well but also asked him about an odd background sound — “a constant rumbling” — that could be heard throughout. “He said, ‘I was so nervous, I was pounding the table,’” Rader recalled. In his book, Outsider in the House, Sanders clarified that the sound was his knees knocking against the table. Sanders, who got just 2 percent of the vote in that election, has had a lot of practice since. “I do think he’s become much more skilled at expressing his views,” said Rader, who has known Sanders since the 1960s and drove him to his first debate, at Lyndon State College, in the same year as the radio debut. “He has come a long, long way.” On October 13, the independent senator will test his oratory skills at the highest level against Hillary Clinton — former first lady, senator and secretary of state — in the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 campaign. During the Las Vegas event, hosted by CNN, his goal will be nothing less than to convince the American people that he should be the next leader of the free world. Will he be ready? “These debates are very big moments in the campaign,” acknowledged Tad Devine, senior adviser to Sanders’ campaign. But he predicted Sanders will do just fine. “Sometimes you get a candidate who needs to get up to speed on the issues. He’s all set on the substance,” Devine said. “I think Bernie is someone who’s very conversant with the issues.” In fact, Sanders has been eager to debate Clinton, who spent years globetrotting as the U.S. secretary of state; he’s been calling on the Democratic National Committee to hold more than the six planned contests. He’s also suggested the possibility of debating Republican candidates before the primaries. Just how Sanders will prepare,

Devine said, depends on the yet-to-beannounced format. “We don’t know what the structure of this thing is going to be or how loose it’s going to be,” Devine said. Sanders will prep, but he won’t go overboard, Devine said. “He’s not a guy who wants to take a lot of time away from campaigning to prepare,” Devine said. “What you’ll see from Bernie in debates is what you see from him on the campaign trail. I don’t think there’s going to be any dramatic changes. He’s very confident that voters seem to like what they’re seeing and hearing.”

The Democratic National Committee has set the rules for who will be included: any Democratic presidential candidate who has received at least 1 percent in three credible national polls. That qualifies Sanders, Clinton, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley and possibly former Virginia senator Jim Webb and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee. If Vice President Joe Biden becomes a candidate, he’d surely be onstage, too. Although he hasn’t faced a close race since 1994, Sanders has run in 20 elections, during which he’s been called

everything from a fraud and a liar to a sellout. He’s debated candidates who are richer and poorer, farther left and right, better and lesser known. Generally speaking, though, his Vermont campaigns have been mild, polite affairs. Sanders has never been in a debate with so many people watching, or against candidates with so much campaign experience. If he’s nervous on October 13, he would hardly be the first presidential candidate with the jitters. When former Vermont governor Howard Dean ran for president in 2004, he and his staff focused heavily on preparation for the first debate, said Bob Rogan, who was Dean’s deputy campaign manager. “The stakes were so high,” Rogan said. “We were all nervous.” Dean’s staff and consultants compiled notebooks detailing the records of his multiple opponents, Rogan said. They gathered in a Burlington law office conference room for a mock debate, where Dean faced off against people acting as the other candidates. Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who was then president pro tem of the state Senate, played thensenator Joe Lieberman. In the end, though, the debate didn’t go well for Dean, who would later rate his performance as a D-minus. “I think we over-prepared, and Howard got really stressed out,” recalled Kate O’Connor, who also worked on Dean’s campaign. “We told him, ‘You’ve got to say this, you’ve got to say that.’ He was really bad.” She added: “You’ve got to remember to be yourself. You can’t just have these scripted answers.” But it is important to practice the little things, such as where to walk, and to know where the cameras, lights and water will be, according to Rogan. To get ready for a later debate, Dean’s crew staged another one in Burlington City Hall Auditorium. The most important thing, Rogan said, is for a candidate to focus on the three points he or she wants the public to hear. Preparation is key to making sure that whatever questions are asked, the candidate smoothly shifts back to

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wagging his finger at her. Clinton shook Sanders had faced a tougher candihis hand, effectively brushing him off, date in the 2006 race against Republican and went back to debating. Lazio’s per- Rich Tarrant. The two competed in a formance was widely characterized as heated, high-spending campaign for an bullying and made the Washington Post’s open Senate seat. 2011 list of “worst debate moments ever.” Tarrant, a businessman who founded What can Clinton expect from the health-care technology company Sanders? John MacGovern was one of IDX Systems, accused Sanders during the last Vermonters to debate him, when one debate of having outlandish ideas he ran against the sitting senator in 2012. about universal health coverage. The Republican from Sanders shot back: “I Windsor said they dehope your plan is better bated four times before than the work you did the election. Sanders on Fletcher Allen,” a refbeat him with 71 percent erence to Tarrant’s time of the vote. on the hospital board “He’s aggressive while it was mired in a and will talk over you,” parking garage financing MacGovern said. “You scandal. can’t just be a gentleman But Tarrant and his the whole time, or he’ll supporters also managed walk all over you.” to get under Sanders’ Sanders debated skin. In a debate at the MacGovern one-on-one, Burlington Veterans of TAD D E V I N E , S AN D E RS C AM PAI GN but Sanders also parForeign Wars Post 782, ticipated in a traditional Sanders said, “In some Vermont Public Television debate with countries Osama bin Laden, if you can all of the candidates, most of whom made believe it, is more respected than George Sanders look mainstream. Liberty Union W. Bush.” Party candidate Peter Diamondstone acTarrant’s retort: “Mr. Sanders, I can cused Sanders of lacking the “cojones” understand your buddy Chávez saying to vote against a resolution in support something like that,” he said of the of Iraq War troops. Sanders, unflus- Venezuelan president at the time. “You tered, pointed out that he voted against need to apologize.” the war. “No, I don’t need to apologize,”

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those main points. “You want to practice the pivot,” Rogan said. Sanders, who has been delivering the same political message for 40 years, should have no trouble with that maneuver. But he should also expect to be grilled more intensely than he has to date, said Ben LaBolt, a former White House aide who has helped candidates, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, prepare for high-level debates. “It will certainly be different than a rally with his stump speech,” LaBolt said. “He’s not had a 90minute, prime-time national audience. The scrutiny level will be much higher.” LaBolt said Sanders will likely be asked how he would pay for his proposals, such as universal health coverage, and how he would increase taxes on the wealthy. And there’s the fact that “Hillary Clinton is a very accomplished debater,” Devine conceded. “I expect she’ll do well.” The fact that Clinton is female could also present challenges for her male opponents. Just ask Rick Lazio, the former congressman who ran against her in 2000 for the U.S. Senate in New York. During a televised debate, Lazio pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, walked over to Clinton and insisted she sign a pledge against “soft” campaign money. “I want your signature,” Lazio said,

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the project that the city is organizing this fall — no date has been set — and perhaps use petitions, more art and other tools to rally public opinion. Diane Gayer, a South End architect, planner and artist, said the parkway is an obsolete proposal that wins support from public officials partly because it’s been planned for so long — and there are federal dollars attached to it. The 2.8-mile parkway was first proposed in the mid-1960s as a four-lane highway that would speed cars from Interstate 189 at the southern gateway of Burlington to downtown. After curving to the west around Shelburne Road and Pine Street, the highway was supposed to run parallel to Pine over the Barge Canal and dump cars onto Battery Street. A portion of the project was paved in the 1980s from I-189 — the connector to Interstate 89 — to Home Avenue. But it never opened to traffic. Since then, the dead-end stub of highway has been known colloquially as the Road to Nowhere, and the proposed route has changed. It would no longer run over the capped Barge Canal Superfund site due to environmental concerns about disturbing polluted soils there. Instead, it would go to Lakeside Avenue, then jog east to Pine Street. Weinberger remains committed to the parkway. He showed no sign of backing down in a telephone interview

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urlington artists against the proposed Champlain Parkway organized a tug-of-war at the South End Art Hop earlier this month. They invited supporters of the roadway designed to improve the city’s Pine Street corridor to meet up with opponents to pull for their respective points of view. A crowd assembled, but a problem arose. Plenty of people lined up against the project, but “there wasn’t anybody on the other side,” said Amey Radcliffe, a graphic artist who helped organize the event. The opponents sent a few volunteers over to the “pro” parkway side and easily overpowered them in the tug-of-war. The stunt perfectly illustrated what Radcliffe wants to say about the proposed connector road that has been on the drawing board since the 1960s and recently cleared final approval hurdles: “Where is the public support for it?” she asks. Earlier that day, the artists claimed a separate but related victory in the same commercial district, which is known in “planning speak” as the South End enterprise zone. Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger announced he would abandon plans to put housing there — a proposed zoning change that artists feared would price them out of their funky studios in repurposed industrial buildings. Satirical Art Hop works critical of the mayor — including a cardboard “Miroville!” development — appeared to have achieved their goal. Inspired by their success, many artists are now hoping to turn their agitprop and growing political savvy on a new cause: to block the parkway. But it’s unclear whether the artist-activists will be able to stop the decades-old project, which has the mayor’s solid support. The road won a major permitting battle in August when the Vermont Supreme Court beat back an appeal of the parkway’s state environmental permit, which was granted in 2014. Compared to the housing proposals for the South End, the parkway is “a lot further along. It has been approved,” Radcliffe said. She and other artists are hoping that by asking questions they will help inspire new thinking about the parkway. They plan to attend an upcoming meeting on

one week after the Art Hop — despite numerous public displays against him. In addition to the tug-of-war, the event featured various installations that bashed Weinberger’s pro-development policies. An oversize pink papier-mâché confection called “Miro’s Farmhouse Lopsided Sugar-Coated Plan BTV Cake” bore a sign explaining that artists would get “some crumbs” from the cake and a free serving of the “Champlain/Champagne Parkway.” Another artwork featured Weinberger as a puppeteer perched on an art studio roof, manipulating the suspended figures of the city’s planning and zoning director, David White, and Burlington City Arts director Doreen Kraft. Weinberger did not seem provoked by these jabs. He said he appreciated and respected the voices of artists and their participation in the public process. But that doesn’t mean he’s caving on the parkway. “I don’t see the city changing course in this policy direction,” Weinberger said firmly. He said he believes the parkway will help traffic flow, improve pedestrian and bicyclist access, and get heavy truck traffic off Flynn Avenue and other streets. The city council unanimously approved the project in 2012. Since then, Weinberger said, his administration has worked diligently to improve the design of the parkway. It’s not the four-lane divided highway that would have enabled

motorists to barrel through the city, separating neighborhoods from Lake Champlain and each other, he said. “You’re never going to have 100 percent of people agreeing about a major transportation decision like this,” Weinberger added. The earliest the city could start construction is 2018, Burlington officials say. It would cost an estimated $30 million on top of the $8 million spent since 1998, and the millions more that went into planning, design, property acquisition and legal expenses before that. In advance of construction, the city needs to acquire temporary and permanent rights of way to at least 26 parcels along the proposed pathway, according to Chapin Spencer, director of public works. While some of the easements will likely be minor, it’s possible that landowners could balk at ceding even small rights of way and force the city into more legal battles to take the land through condemnation. Everyone seems to agree that current traffic on Pine Street, especially at the intersection with Maple Street, is a mess. About 16,000 cars a day travel the corridor. The parkway would take some traffic off the southern end of Pine, but add an estimated 1,800 cars to the congested stretch between Lakeside Avenue and Maple, where cars back up for blocks to get through the four-way

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It would be great to get more people out of their cars, Leone said, and he’s heartened to see more people walking, riding bicycles and even jogging to work outside his shop door. Shortly before 8 a.m. last Friday, commuter traffic heading into the city’s South End whined as cars and trucks exited from I-189 and made their way toward downtown on Shelburne Road, South Winooski, South Willard and Pine. But it was quiet along the roughly paved portion of the parkway that is already built — off Home Avenue. It’s a weirdly untraveled corridor in a bustling little city. Not a single vehicle was visible. Weeds poked through cracks. Birds sang and poplars, maples, pines and sumac crowded the edge of the concrete. An abandoned mattress lay on the pavement, and bushy plants grew all over a median between the marked lanes. Stretches of handsome granite curbing ran along the unfinished road. It took about 10 minutes for Spencer to walk from Queen City Park Road to where the pavement connects to I-189 and an eight-acre bowl-like area. If not used for the parkway, could this parcel host something else — such as new neighborhoods with houses, apartments, offices and stores? Even if the city wanted to abandon the parkway and build something on the land, it would face hurdles, Spencer said. “This is not the city’s land free and clear to do what it wants with it.” The parkway has been a state and federal project, and the city would have to repay the state an estimated $8 million, if not more, to reclaim the land for other uses, Spencer said. That’s a lot more than the estimated $600,000 the city has to kick in to see the $30 million parkway completed. The federal government is on the hook to cover the vast majority; the State of Vermont, the rest. Spencer, meanwhile, insists the parkway has merit. It will be a low-speed artery with well-designed crossings and room for bicyclists and pedestrians when it’s built, said the former full-time advocate of alternative transportation. “We are continually working to evolve this design and make it a street that fits into the character of the South End,” he said. Skeptics are going to be surprised, Spencer suggested. He thinks the parkway will be built. “People are always saying it’s not going to happen,” Spencer said. “Well, we are closer than we’ve ever been, and there is a path to construction at this point.” m

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stop. Some trucks can’t manage to turn east or west at that intersection. The prospect of more cars being funneled into this dysfunctional junction is one of the major criticisms of the parkway. Weinberger and Spencer say new traffic signals would improve the Maple-Pine clog. The duo also hopes that in the long term the city will build a short road that would jog west from Pine near Kilburn Street, cut behind old industrial buildings on South Champlain Street and run along railroad tracks to connect to the south end of Battery Street — allowing a bypass to the Maple-Pine junction. But that would require a separate permit process, many studies and possible hurdles involving soil contamination in the Burlington rail yard. Critics wonder what the parkway will accomplish. “I think there are ways to improve traffic flow without building the highway,” said Marc Leone, who has a frontrow seat to the problem from the business he co-owns, Sterling Hardwoods, at 422 Pine Street. Rush-hour traffic backs up a halfmile or more every day, he said. Had the parkway been built 30 years ago, it would have been useful, but now the city has grown up around the route, and it’s going to hurt more neighborhoods than it helps, according to Leone. “I just don’t trust them to fix the problem and add more vehicles at the same time,” he said.

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The early releases came after Wesley ruled in favor Southern State Correctional of Nathaniel Serre, a former Facility in Springfield inmate who sued DOC alleging that the department had improperly computed his sentence. Wesley ruled that Serre, who was sentenced for multiple offenses, should have been given credit for 51 days he had previously served. Wesley’s decision has led DOC to hastily grant freedom to 11 inmates in similar situations, including Burlington resident Brian LeClair. He was sentenced in September 2012 to three to five years for charges including burglary, gross negligent operation of a motor vehicle and violating his probation. Wesley’s ruling meant that LeClair, 34, had been improperly deprived of 270 days of credit. On August 18, a caseworker told him that he was being released that day from the Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury, LeClair said. “I didn’t know which way was up or which was down,” LeClair told Seven Days. “I was confused. I never thought in a million years it would happen. It was the greatest feeling I’ve ever had. I received my freedom.”

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The Vermont Department of Corrections has approved early releases for 84 people from custody or community supervision and is reviewing its entire 10,000-person caseload after a judge ruled that the agency’s method of calculating some sentences was flawed. Eleven inmates have been released from prison earlier than scheduled, and DOC supervision ended for 73 people who were on probation or furlough, DOC Commissioner Andy Pallito told Seven Days on September 16. Many more inmates and probationers likely will be released earlier than scheduled in the coming months. Pallito said the first 84 were identified during the initial DOC reviews of 250 cases. “It’s hard for us to know really how many cases it affects,” Pallito said. It is unlikely that any inmate convicted of the most violent crimes will be released early, Pallito said. Those affected by Bennington Superior Court Judge John Wesley’s ruling are typically serving sentences for lower-level crimes. Sentences are being reduced by a couple of weeks to several months, Pallito said.

There’s nothing unusual about a super PAC digging up dirt on an opposing candidate and sending it to the news media. That’s what they do. But when Correct the Record, a super PAC supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton, emailed opposition research on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the Huffington Post on September 14, it evidently failed to secure an agreement with a reporter that the source of the information would be kept off the record. HuffPo wrote about the oppo dump — “A Pro-Clinton Super PAC Is Going Negative On Bernie Sanders” — and Sanders pounced. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders emailed supporters the next day, adding that it was “the kind of onslaught I expected to see from the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson.” He called on supporters to “make the super PACs pay for attacking us” by contributing to his campaign. They did. Within 48 hours, Sanders’ campaign announced last Thursday, it had raised $1.2 million off the attack. “I hope that sends a very clear message that the American people are sick and tired of politics as usual and negative campaigning,” Sanders said in a statement. The episode is yet another example of the Sanders camp’s success at using digital media to convert a swell of support into cold, hard cash. Unlike Clinton and other top rivals, Sanders has held few traditional fundraisers. Instead, he’s raised the vast majority of his contributions online. Correct the Record’s attempts to raise doubts about Sanders will likely continue. In an interview with Bloomberg last Tuesday, founder David Brock defended the email, saying it was “just standard opposition research.” “You’ve seen it before; you’ll see it again,” he said.

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or the 11th year, one weekend in late September brings scribblers of all sorts to Burlington for a slate of readings, talks, panels and more. The big news is that most of the BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL’s events this year from Friday, September 25, through Sunday, September 27, will take place on the University of Vermont campus. Look for info on specific readings — as well as free parking — on the website. Sure, you could just go in blind and listen to the authors talk about their books. But sometimes it pays to focus. We’ve compiled a list of questions that we think this year’s BBF events and attendees could help you answer.

1. How do you make every word count? New Yorker Abigail Thomas is a memoirist with a broad and devoted following. Stephen King, of all people, called her “the Emily Dickinson of memoirists” in a blurb for her latest book, What Comes Next and How to Like It. Also an artist and a dog lover, Thomas is known for presenting episodes from her life in short, eloquent chunks of prose — using white space to her advantage and giving her fans a quick read imbued with reflections that will last them a lifetime. (Saturday, 12:45 to 1:15 p.m., in the North Lounge of Billings Memorial Library at UVM. If you’re in more of a fiction mood, catch award-winning part-time Vermont novelist REBECCA MAKKAI at Marsh Lounge in the same building and time slot.) 2. What was Gore Vidal really like? The late firebrand author, commentator and screenwriter was recently memorialized in a documentary called Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia. A major presence in that film was Vidal’s longtime friend, Middlebury College professor and prolific author JAY PARINI, whose Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal will be published this October. “My main responsibility was to do a very fair, balanced and affectionate, but clear and honest, life of Gore Vidal,” Parini told Seven Days reporter Ethan de Seife in 2014. “That’s my task. I think I’ve done it, but we’ll see.” (Saturday, 1:30 to 2 p.m., in Marsh Lounge, Billings Memorial Library.) 3. How do editors choose what to publish in literary journals?

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5. How does an author go from being a National Book Award winner to a nobody? In 1949, Nelson Algren won the National Book Award for his novel The Man With the Golden Arm. In 1955, it became a movie starring Frank Sinatra. The Chicago leftist, inveterate poker player and chronicler of the down-and-out was praised by Hemingway and romanced by founding feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Yet when Algren died, in 1981, his books were out of print, his name obscure. What happened? And why has Algren received renewed attention in recent years? Find out by watching the new documentary Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, The Road Is All, codirected by

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ShootING FIlm Three years before the Columbine High School massacre, in February 1996, a Washington State teenager shot his algebra teacher and two students. Jessi Shuttleworth, a Washington native and Saint Michael’s College alumna, will never forget the incident — her then-13-year-old brother was in a nearby classroom during the shooting. “Although 18 years have passed, he, like many who were present, has not found peace,” Shuttleworth writes in an email. Now an actor and filmmaker, Shuttleworth created a 13-minute film called “February” that focuses on the survivors of a school shooting — “the lives of those left behind,” she writes. Her short screens in Dover this weekend as part of the 10th annual ITVFesT, or Independent Television and Film Festival, which brings hundreds of industry people to the rustic town to watch and judge independently produced web series, TV pilots and shorts. Get the whole schedule at itvfest.com. mAr G o t h Ar r IS o N

INFo “February” screens on Friday, September 25, 4:45 p.m., in the Dover Forge Screening Tent; and on Saturday, September 26, 1:40 p.m., in the Dover Forge Gala Tent. ITVFest runs Thursday through Sunday, September 24 to 27, various locations in Dover. $49 one-day pass or $129 multiday pass. itvfest.com

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6. What links heather, honeybees and Buddy holly’s demise? I can tell you right now: a poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon, this year’s BBF headliner. (Read its entirety at left, from his latest work One Thousand Things Worth Knowing: Poems.) According to legend, when the poet was a teenager in Ireland, he sent some verses to Seamus Heaney and asked what was wrong with them. The elder luminary replied, “Nothing.” Today, Muldoon is poetry editor of the New Yorker, a Princeton professor, a writer of rock lyrics and a fan of Bruce Springsteen. His poems — including a tribute to the late Heaney — are dense with allusions to high, middle and low culture, with rhythms that sing. (Friday, 7:45 p.m. in the Grand Maple Ballroon, Dudley H. Davis Center)

7. Who will win the Vermont Book Award? The BBF has partnered with the VerMonT College oF FIne ArTs to promote its gala announcement of the very first winner of this $5,000 prize awarded to a book set in Vermont, published by a Vermont press or authored by a Vermonter. All but one of the six finalists are local writers: lelAnD KInsey of Barton, gAry lee MIller of Montpelier, KerrIn MCCADDen of Plainfield, JessICA HenDry nelson of Winooski, and DAnA WAlrATH of Underhill. The Saturday evening gala is a separate event happening at VCFA’s Alumni Hall in Montpelier, with $100 tickets available through vcfa.edu. m

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ermont is far from the geographical origins of tango music, in Argentina and Uruguay. But last year, two sets of musical spouses living in the Green Mountains discovered they loved the form. As it happened, both duos’ repertoires already included works by the pioneering tango composer Ástor Piazzolla. So, from the “bordellos” of Burlington and Sharon, respectively, Sarah Cullins and Daniel Gaviria and Annemieke and Jeremiah McLane united to form the Piazzolla Project. The group has performed just twice since its debut in November 2014 before a sold-out audience at Saint Michael’s College. The Piazzolla Project’s next gig is this Sunday, September 27, at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. There the musicians will explore Piazzolla’s dramatic and unusual tangos on piano (Annemieke McLane), piano accordion (Jeremiah McLane) and electric guitar (Gaviria), with soprano Cullins joining in on roughly half the songs. One might expect tango dancers to appear, too. But Piazzolla’s tangos are undanceable, explained the four tangueros during a recent rehearsal at the University of Vermont. In fact, the Argentinian composer, now widely admired, was long vilified in his homeland phrasing in one part. Unlike traditional tango, Piazzolla’s music calls for improfor messing with its venerated art form. Piazzolla studied with composer visation “as an element of freedom and Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the late 1950s expression,” said Gaviria. When Cullins stepped up to deliver and went on to enrich the tango with a song written in sophisticated harFrench that will monic structures, open Sunday’s dissonance, tempo program, the music shifts, and other seemed even further jazz and classical from traditional elements. He called tango than before. his music Nuevo Trained in operatic Tango. In the ’70s, singing, Cullins used he added electronic the same breath instruments to control and projechis experiments, tion she would in said Gaviria — one any classical perforreason the classimance — such as her cal guitarist was S arah C ull in s role in the recently plugged in. revived A Fleeting Seven Days entered the small rehearsal room as Animal: An Opera From Judevine, which Gaviria and the McLanes finished an in- had opened the previous night. Cullins recalled that when Gaviria, strumental piece. A discussion followed between the guitarist and the accordion- who’s from Colombia and forms the duo ist — whose instrument will stand in for 8 Cuerdas with her, first suggested she traditional tango’s bandonéon — about sing tango, she protested: “It’s done in a who would echo the other’s thematic chest voice. I’d have to start smoking and

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drinking. It’s sung at least one octave below where I sing.” But her husband encouraged her to “be dramatic in a different range.” And dramatic she was, delivering a passionate rendition of a Parisian woman’s lament for her days of love and music in Buenos Aires. (Cullins will translate the songs for the audience.) While she sang, the McLanes’ 2-yearold son sat transfixed on the closed piano lid, his tricycle abandoned below. Both couples are parents; Cullins and Gaviria’s 4-year-old son was with a babysitter. Annemieke, who trained as a classical pianist and accompanist in Holland, said the parallels between the couples made it easy for them to join forces. “We’re two women who went all over the world to find husbands,” she quipped. (She met Jeremiah after moving to Vermont; Cullins met Gaviria in Colombia.) “And musically, it clicks,” she added. Cullins said that Piazzolla clicked in particular because “we all have these multi-faceted careers where we’re not just classical musicians, and maybe Piazzolla was the first crossover artist.”

Among Annemieke’s varied gigs are accompanying the choral group Handel Society of Dartmouth College and playing solo concerts of Chopin and Schubert. As half of the Jeremiah and Annemieke Duo — which just returned from performing in the Montmagny World Accordion Festival in Québec — she plays Jeremiah’s arrangements of folk tunes by Dvořák and Francesco Cavalli. Though Piazzolla’s oeuvre is “absolutely huge,” said Jeremiah, the group plans eventually to expand its repertoire to include other Latin and South American music. The accordionist trained in the Brazilian traditional music forms of forró and choro, among others. For now, Piazzolla’s passionate and, as Gaviria called them, “revolutionary” tangos are consuming enough. As Cullins said with a laugh, “Tango is very life and death, and there’s not much in between.” m

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was born. “I’m a student of Rilke and Robert Frost — I like questions,” he adds. “I try not to define anything too finitely.” In that respect, his play succeeds. It’s never entirely clear what the work is about. This observer came away with more feelings than facts, and Oliver is OK with that. “Overall, the entire play takes

one of the vignettes featuring three generations. Audiences will not soon forget the memory of bewigged Ben Aleshire as the crotchety grandmother. Beyond its humor, the scene lays the workings of memory bare: We see how it becomes fractured over time, and how responses persist based on erroneous recall.

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The Question’s scenes feature any number of its five cast members in various juxtapositions: parent and child, spousal or dating couple, customers and waiter, a writer and his typewriter. The mood shifts from, as Oliver says, “humor to anxiety,” and back again. And, though the play is grounded in what might be called realistic behavior — we can see ourselves in the characters’ foibles — it sometimes slips into manic surrealism.

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place between the asking of a question and its answer,” he says. “Sometimes it’s simple and loaded, like ‘You want to get a drink?’ Then it drills down into why a character may ask, or answer, the way they do.” That “why” generally stems from childhood, from family relationships, behaviors and rote responses that get “passed down,” Oliver says. He illustrates that principle to hilarious effect in

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To their collective credit, the actors, with various degrees of prior stage experience, take this in stride. In addition to Oliver (Paul) and Aleshire (Chorus A), the players are Dre Idle (Eden), Pamela Formica (Chorus C) and Anna May (Chorus B). Those designated as “chorus” each perform multiple roles — “a wonderful challenge for an actor,” says Oliver. “But it also speaks to all these aspects of people.” Meanwhile, a relationship of sorts evolves between Paul and Eden. Always, the playwright poses some kind of question. By the last scene — the longest by far in this single-act production — we begin to feel that previous ones have built to an emotional crescendo. Spoiler alert: The passion that ensues between Paul and Eden is mitigated by, as Oliver puts it, “a pullback at the last second.” The humor in this play saves it from becoming too earnest, heady or affected. Laugh-inducing dialogue comes just often enough. Gullikson, who is also credited with set, costume and lighting design, introduced ingeniously silly props that serve equally to poke fun at the production’s minuscule budget: handheld labels or cardboard boxes signify a chair, a typewriter, a poem, a centerpiece, a bored hostess and so on. Humor is associated with Oliver’s very name — and yes, he gets the “not that John Oliver” thing a lot. As for “Milton,” it’s a tribute not to the 17thcentury author of Paradise Lost but to his dad; when Oliver began using his full name at age 20, “it was sort of a nod to him,” he says. So his auspicious moniker doesn’t explain why this Middlebury College economics major turned to writing poetry, got a master’s in English, or later cofounded Howard and Pine Poets. Never mind why he pens plays. Perhaps it is why Oliver admits to having “a deep fear of pretension.” Which in turn is surely why his character in The Question reads a sonnet he’s ostensibly just written and immediately declares: “That is some pretentious, navel-sucking bullshit.” m

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on’t go to The Question looking for answers. The new play by Burlington writer John Milton Oliver, which will have three more performances this week at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, mostly does the asking. If the characters in this so-called “wordplay” answer anything, they also insert doubt or a failure to commit, leaving the audience slightly unsettled. But usually in a good way. An installment in this year’s OC@ OC — Original Content at Off Center — series, The Question is directed by Jordan Gullikson and produced by Green Candle Theatre Company. The idea behind the series is to present and promote new works by local playwrights — some emerging, some more experienced — in an organized season. Or, as the mission statement puts it, “to incubate brave, original theater and to grow the breadth and scope of Vermont’s artists, audiences and enthusiasts.” Just five years ago, such a development might have been a pipe dream for the founders of the affordable, cozy black-box theater; now it’s a reality. No single artistic director pulled OC@OC together; instead, a consortium of artists united to herd some of Vermont’s creative cats. Oliver, 33, is a poet, playwright, actor, sometime fiction writer, and full-time teacher and co-administrator at Centerpoint, an alternative school with classes in South Burlington and Winooski. “Regular schools are not meeting their needs,” Oliver says of his 11- to 21-year-old students. “They have trouble making healthy relationships.” The same might be said for the characters in The Question. Constructed as a series of vignettes, the play lacks a conventional narrative arc, yet an existential thread sews it together. Its essential ideas are central to human and literary history: navigating relationships and searching for meaning. Nothing new there — yet Oliver has crafted an original way to play out his themes. It all grew out of a little pressure from Aaron Masi. The Green Candle board president called Oliver last February to say there was an open slot in September in the inaugural OC@OC. Did he have something to fill it? Oliver committedand decided to write something new. Pressed to give Masi a title, “I said, ‘The Question,’” Oliver recalls. And so a theme

THE STRAIGHT DOPE BY CECIL ADAMS

Dear Cecil,

cyclist traveling in the opposite (i.e., correct) direction — somebody’s gotta swerve out into the road to make way. (Courtesy suggests it be you, seeing as you’re the one on the wrong side of the road.) Drivers don’t expect to see cyclists traveling toward them and often aren’t on the lookout — like when they’re turning left at an intersection. And then there’s simple physics: A head-on car-bike collision will be a magnitude more violent than a bump from behind. Oh, and it’s illegal. Laws in most states currently call for bicyclists to travel as far to the right as practicable — AFRAP, in the parlance — with obvious exceptions for turning left or passing. Federal bodies like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also have plenty to say about biking and walking, none of it different from what I’ve laid out here. In recent

America places the blame for rising pedestrian deaths squarely on lagging urbanplanning paradigms, noting that most fatalities occur in the Sunbelt — places that “grew in the postwar period, mostly through rapid spread of lowdensity neighborhoods that rely on wider streets with higher speeds to connect homes, shops and schools” — and particularly along arterial streets, that is, urban thoroughfares designed to move lots of cars along as quickly as possible. So your best bet wherever you are is to watch your back, and your front, and wait for transportation planners to catch up.

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eorge, did you ever see those bumper stickers that say, “My karma ran over your dogma”? Suffice it to say your dogma’s in a vulnerable position here. In places where no sidewalks exist, walkers and runners are advised to travel in the opposite direction of motorvehicle traffic — that’s to say, on the left side of the road, if we’re assuming an American layout. The logic behind this is pretty much as you present it: They’ll be in a better position to spot, say, a drunk or distracted driver careering at them on the highway ahead. The same doesn’t hold true for biking. That’s as it should be: According to the League of American Bicyclists, bikers traveling against traffic are three times more likely to be involved in an accident. It’s a dangerous practice for a number of reasons. Say you meet another

2010 reporting injury related to cellphone use while walking and found the annual number had doubled, to 1,500, in that period. Mind you, these didn’t all involve automobiles; no doubt some were pedestrianlamppost collisions. In one reported case, a “14-year-old boy walking down a road while talking on a cellphone fell six to eight feet off a bridge into a rock-strewn ditch, suffering chest and shoulder injuries.” Injuries were highest, unsurprisingly, among the 16-to-25-year-old set. The situation is different with bikes. A study out this month found a 28 percent increase in adult bike injuries between 1998 and 2013 — from 96 to 123 per 100,000 people. The rise was especially prevalent in riders over 45, who are apparently taking to the bike lanes in droves. That said, it’s not clear this indicates any problem greater than there just being more bikes on the road than ever before. In that same time period, according to a Rutgers researcher, the number of total bike trips taken rose by at least 23 percent and perhaps as much as 40 percent. The clearest lesson is that roads, which were largely drawn up with car traffic in mind, are now more crowded by everybody. A May 2014 report from Smart Growth

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If walking or bicycling on a street that doesn’t have sidewalks, I’ve always been taught to do so in the direction of the street traffic, which seems to be dogma. I would think going against traffic would theoretically be safer — allowing a view of oncoming cars and possibly crucial eye contact with drivers. Certainly easier to spot an impaired driver who’s weaving on the road facing forward rather than backward. Your thoughts? George Kuritza, Park Ridge, Ill.

years, though, they’ve started saying it a lot louder, as fatality stats have gotten markedly worse. Injury and death to cyclists and pedestrians have been on the rise since 2009; between 2011 and 2012 alone, reports the Department of Transportation, pedestrian deaths were up 6 percent and cyclist deaths up 7 percent. In September 2014, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced an 18-month campaign to address the problem, which will include both “design improvements” and public education. From the pedestrian perspective, it’s fairly plain where the action is: namely, not out where there are no sidewalks. In 2012, nearly three-quarters of pedestrian fatalities occurred in an urban setting. Almost 70 percent occurred away from intersections, 89 percent during normal weather conditions and 70 percent after 6 p.m.; 48 percent involved alcohol. (What’s more dangerous in rural areas? Driving. In 2013 rural areas accounted for 54 percent of fatal motor-vehicle crashes in the United States and only 19 percent of its population.) But people have been drinking and jaywalking forever. Why all the alarming statistics lately? Setting aside issues of drivers’ conduct, since that’s not what you asked about: What’s changed pedestrian behavior in this century? Phones, for one. A 2013 study out of Ohio State University tracked emergencyroom cases between 2004 and

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he mint-green concrete steps behind the University of Vermont’s stately Williams Hall are akin to bad plastic surgery on a beautiful person: They aren’t pretty. The larger question is why they exist. The nine steps on the backside of the ornate 1896 building lead to an empty landing facing a brick wall with no doors or vestige of doors. It’s a stairway to nowhere. Or is it? After a reader brought this mystery to our attention, we walked up to the university green on an unseasonably hot September afternoon to stake out

the stairway. Surely its reason for being would become clear under direct observation. On the scene, students were observed passing singly and in packs, their supple young minds apparently oblivious to the riveting curiosity within eyeshot. No one set foot on the stairway. A large construction crew was working to transform a pit between Williams and the Cook Physical Science Building into UVM’s $104 million STEM complex. They, too, ignored the stairway to nowhere at 72 University Place. Around the pit, dump trucks beeped in reverse and diesel engines moaned. Bulldozers scraped the earth to give rise

to a new campus edifice. But what about the pointless stairs on the magnificent old edifice already soaring toward the sky? Didn’t the construction crews want to idle their cranes and apply their engineering know-how to ask, “WTF?” Apparently not. That left us to wonder and investigate. Cyber-forensics (i.e., a quick Google search) revealed that a metal fire escape on the south side of Williams Hall, around the corner from the stairway to nowhere, might hold a clue. Student bloggers have named that fire escape the “best make-out spot” on campus because of its views of Lake Champlain — and, one assumes, the sneaky thrill of sucking face where bad moves could result in falling several stories and splatting on the ground. Hmm. Could our stairway to nowhere have been connected to a second, now-removed metal fire escape? A fire escape that was torn down because the one on the south side already meets student make-out needs? Implausible. We left the shade and ascended the stairway to nowhere to the landing … at nowhere. Close examination showed no evidence of a fire escape having ever existed there. Frustrated in our investigation, we paused to appreciate the building itself. From the gargoyles on the gable parapets to the grand arched entrance to the terra-cotta trim, Williams Hall is a striking structure. The building features almost no wood (with the exception of window trimming) and was considered one of the most fireproof buildings in Vermont when it was constructed in the wake of several prominent building fires on the UVM campus. The structure is named for the Philadelphia couple who paid for it: locomotive king Edward H. Williams and his wife, Cornelia. Originally designed as a science hall, it is now home to the art and anthropology departments. Could the stairs and the landing have been built to hold a statue of Williams, thereby honoring his generous bequest and inspiring present-day potentates to part with large sums for new building projects? As we pondered this possibility, someone came out of the building. He looked

like he might work inside. “What’s the deal with the stairs?” we asked. The man was Bruce Trudo, a facilities repairman who has worked at UVM for a dozen years, and he had an answer, or at least part of one. The concrete cube supporting the stairway does have a reason for being on the back of the building. “That’s the electrical bunker,” Trudo explained. The bunker, which is accessible from the bowels of Williams, contains a transformer. As for the stairway built on it, however, Trudo was clueless. “Why the stairs were ever there, I have no idea,” he said. Hoping to find the answer at the source, we approached several people in the UVM buildings department. Michael Richards, facilities information analyst, studied old drawings for clues. It appears that the bunker, or transformer vault, was added to the building around 1960, he wrote in an email. The east wall of the vault was supposed to have an exit, and so was the landing atop the vault. That might have justified the stairway — but, for some reason, neither egress was built, and the finished bunker deviates from the plan. “I could not find anything as to why they did not construct it as originally designed,” Richards wrote. So the stairs’ function remains a mystery — or a casualty of forgotten circumstance. What about their distinctive mint-green shade, which has been painted over here and there with swirls of lighter green? Turns out graffiti artists like to express themselves on the stairway. Maintenance people paint over their handiwork. “People would do their little artwork all over that thing,” said Trudo, pointing to the various shades of mint on the bunker. “So we painted it some more green. That’s not even a UVM green per se,” he noted — indeed, it’s several shades lighter than the school color. “It’s just green.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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e live in a world where machines tell us what to do, from when to board an airplane to how to administer an EpiPen. As one of the voices of that world, voice-over professional Brian Thon (pronounced “tone”) aims to bring humanity to his art. “I take the material deeply to heart,” says the Richmond resident. “I study it carefully so that, when I open my mouth, it sounds like it’s coming from me, whatever the ‘it’ is.” Amazon, GE Healthcare, Fox News and the Stowe Country Club are among the international and local clients who’ve called on Thon to provide “it.” Those gigs sound pretty good to a guy who was Brian Thon a longtime account executive for DHL before he heeded the call to a Richmond new career in 2008. The father of three teenagers, president and CEO of Voice-over digital media production company True Tone artist Studios, and a coach at South Burlington studio Such a Voice, Thon has croaked like a frog, complained like a curmudgeon and coached clients for jobs with Disney, the Discovery Channel and Apple — not to mention feature films and Broadway. Recently, Seven Days rang him up for a talking-to.

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SEVEN DAYS: How did you become interested in voice-overs? Were you super into movies as a kid or something? You know, “In a world…”? BRIAN THON: Ha ha ha! I can’t actually even do that voice: “In a world…” But I’m totally a movie guy. I love movies. I don’t know if this is a boy thing, but you make sounds with your mouth when you’re a kid — you’re doing sound effects; you’re watching Looney Tunes and making laser sounds and the cracking of a bat on the baseball field and all that. My dad was a broadcasting engineer, so I was around technology and media, although it looked very different in those days. People would say, “You should be on the radio; you’ve got a radio-guy voice.” But there’s a lot more versatility in voice work. I like the nuance in the performance as a voice talent. It’s not about you — it’s always about the message and the emotional engagement of the audience, reaching people where they are and figuring out how to do that best. You have to be authentic. It can’t sound like words on a page; it has to come from your heart in a believable way.

SD: What was your first voice-over project? BT: GE Healthcare — they were opening a subsidiary company, Omnyx, and I did the company name and the tagline. That was my first professional voice-over. It was “Something … the Scope of Pathology.” SD: Were you nervous? How many takes did you do? BT: It was funny, because there was no preestablished brand, no YouTube to go to, so it was a stab in the dark. So I busted off a bunch of takes; I gave them three versions to choose from — which is a little unusual, but it was so short, that was OK to do — and it turned out to be this sort of amalgamation [of takes]. SD: How do you prep yourself? You have a distinctive voice, but do you drink tea, or swish with mouthwash, or what? BT: [Coughs and laughs.] I don’t drink tea. Hot and cold drinks actually constrict your vocal cords, so room temperature is good; a little bit of citrus is good to activate the glands at the back of your throat — that helps keeps you moist. One activity I do religiously before I voice a script is, I put a cork between my front teeth, and then read the entire script out loud. It sounds ridiculous and stupid, but nobody’s around. But it forces my jaw muscles to loosen up, so when I take the cork out, I can be very crisp and very clean on the delivery. It works wonderfully!

SD: What’s the wackiest voice-over you’ve had to do? BT: Many years ago, I did overdubbing for a bunch of short films in an accent that … OK, so there were aliens. It was pseudoEnglish, but not clearly English, because it had to be an outside-the-solar-system voice. SD: What’s the most annoying sound to you? BT: The sound of people who speak with their mouths perpetually open, ending all sentences on an upswing in pitch, like every statement is a question. Just … no. SD: OK, how can you tell if someone has talent? Let’s say just from talking to me, do I have potential? BT: Just chatting with you, yes, you have a relatable sound, you’re clearly intelligent and well read, you articulate well, and there’s a subtle texture and timbre to your voice. SD: Too many corks! BT: Yeah, so you have a relatable voice. But here’s the rub. If I put a script in front of you, and you need to give that life in the way the story on the page intends, that’s the real test. SD: So how do you train other people to improve their voices? BT: If they have a regional dialect voice … there’s training to go from “Pahk the cah in the yahd” to “Park the car in the yard.”

And some need to sound less put-on and more natural. If a person has a speech impediment, voice therapy can help. But, while voice-over is statistically one of the most lucrative vocations on the planet, it isn’t for everyone. SD: Do you do ring tones? BT: There are so many different kinds of voice-overs, it’s mind-blowing. Think of the BTV airport, or Shaw’s — the selfcheckout talks to you. Gas pumps, your children’s toys; there’s an EpiPen that has a voice-over chip in it. SD: How do you get all the voices out of your head? BT: The editing process is helpful; I’m now listening with a more critical ear with software. SD: OK, one more question: Do you listen to music, being so attuned to sound? BT: This is an awesome question! No one ever asks this. I friggin’ love music! Alternative rock, progressive rock, primarily. The classics, Beatles, Queen. But some of my more obscure favorites are Porcupine Tree, People in Planes. m

INFO Brian Thon leads a voice-over workshop for ages 18 and up on Thursday, October 15, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Williston Central School. Register at shelburnevt.org. $30. truetonestudios.com

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im Hayes first recognized horses’ power to heal when he saw a burly gang member from South Central Los Angeles come face-to-face with a wild mustang — and his own true nature. It was 1996, and Hayes, then a TV commercial producer in New York City and amateur horseman, had traveled to a federal super-max prison in Florence, Colo., known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.” He went to observe the Wild Horse Inmate Program, established in 1986 by the Bureau of Land Management and the Colorado Department of Corrections to “gentle,” or tame, free-roaming horses from the American plains before they’re put up for adoption. The recidivism rate of WHIP inmates is half the national average. Hayes watched Morris, the former LA Crip who’d never been around a real horse before, confront a thousand-pound snorting, kicking and thrashing beast. In that moment, Hayes remembers, Morris seemed to see himself in the mustang’s wild eyes: not a violent, rage-filled killer who’d once crushed a man’s skull with a car door, but a terrified creature who had to fight just to stay alive. “They act tough, but I think they just scared. Yeah, they ain’t mean,” Hayes recalls Morris telling him afterward about the horse — and himself. “Maybe once you get to trust ’em, they trust you.”

Hayes spent a week with WHIP inmates. In that short time, he witnessed an incredible transformation in Morris and other men whom society had written off as beyond redemption. “The inmates were trying to gentle the horses, but in truth the horses were gentling the inmates,” Hayes writes in his new book, Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal, published in March by St. Martin’s Press. Years later, Hayes discovered that horses have an uncanny ability to gentle people grappling with other physical, emotional and behavioral difficulties: troubled teens, drug addicts, kids with autism and combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Today, at a farm in Vermont and elsewhere, Hayes helps horse enthusiasts tap that healing power. It’s a force that helped him recover from his own traumas, including the death of his mother, his upbringing by an alcoholic, abusive father and the horrors of 9/11, which he witnessed up close. Hayes teaches a method of equine training known as natural horsemanship, sometimes called “horse whispering.” Robert Redford, who directed and starred in the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, wrote the forward to Hayes’ book. Unlike traditional forms of horsemanship that involve “breaking” a horse and getting it to submit to a rider’s will through fear, pain and brute force, natural horsemanship teaches people to understand and

respect horses’ nature. Riders learn how horses read and use body language and establish their place in the herd. As riders become more attuned to that physical language of horses, they see how it mirrors their own and what it’s “saying” to their horse, and to themselves. And, Hayes points out, it’s always an honest reflection. As he puts it in his book, “Horses help us discover hidden parts of ourselves … A horse has no ego, he never lies and he’s never wrong.”

SPEAKING HORSE I first meet Hayes on a humid, overcast morning at the Center for America’s First Horse in Johnson, not far from his house. The 70-acre horse farm overlooking the Green Mountains is about a mile from Johnson State College. Hayes’ fiancée, Stephanie Lockhart, who also teaches natural horsemanship, founded the center in 2010 and is still its director. The nonprofit is home to the largest and most diverse herd of Spanish mustangs in the eastern United States, including one celebrity: Oscar, a 24-year-old gelding who starred in the 2004 Disney biopic Hidalgo, about American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his Spanish mustang. Though a bevy of impressive creatures grazes lazily in the pasture, Hayes doesn’t usually ride a mustang. His preferred steed, whom he calls his “greatest teacher

in life,” is a 26-year-old registered quarter horse named Austin. “Like me, he doesn’t look his age,” Hayes jokes. Indeed. Despite his dapple-gray beard, the 70-year-old could easily pass for someone a decade younger. Dressed in wellscuffed boots, Wranglers, a button-down shirt with pearl snaps and a straw cowboy hat, Hayes cuts the figure of someone who grew up roping calves and hauling hay bales — not riding subway trains and hailing taxis on Broadway. Personally, I’ve never considered myself a horseman, even after five years of living on a horse ranch near Missoula, Mont., and another four working as a ranger in a Texas park where, on rare occasions, I patrolled on horseback. Before meeting Hayes, I had a healthy respect for horses but little understanding of their psychology. Still, knowing I’d meet the writer’s equine partner, I picked a few apples from a neighbor’s tree before leaving home. When Hayes leads Austin out of his paddock, I offer him one. “This is Ken. He’s got an apple for you,” Hayes says, introducing the chestnut gelding. Austin gives it a perfunctory sniff, then turns his nose away. Having read Hayes’ book, I wondered what unwitting message my “greeting” conveyed. Hayes leads Austin to a round pen, then explains the “groundwork” he teaches students before they ever mount a horse.

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Austin stands patiently in the humid, windless air as flies pester his face and body, making his spine twitch and legs shuffle. Even the insects provide a lesson in natural horsemanship. “Here’s a fly getting a thousand-pound horse to lift his leg,” Hayes points out. “That tells us that if I want him to move, maybe I don’t need to use any more pressure than a fly.” Horses, he explains, have three primary motivations: First, as prey animals, they need to feel safe from predators and are always hypervigilant to their surroundings. Second, they need to feel comfortable and will seek out places and fellow creatures, including humans, that offer company, food and protection. Finally, as herd animals, they need to know who’s in charge. “Just like a couple that’s dancing, someone has to lead. And for our safety, we have to be the leader,” Hayes says. “But we don’t want to force our leadership. We want to earn our leadership. We want our horse to say, ‘I’m happy for you to be the leader because you make me feel safe.’” To demonstrate, Hayes walks to the center of the ring and momentarily makes Austin feel unsafe and uncomfortable. He unfurls a rope and swings it in Austin’s direction without hitting him. The horse begins trotting around him in a wide circle. When Hayes wants Austin to move faster, he swings the rope closer to him, still not making contact. Austin increases his pace to a canter. “Horses have a personal space, just like you and I do,” Hayes says. “So I’m getting into his.” When Hayes wants Austin to stop, he kneels and stares at the animal’s hindquarters. Austin halts instantly and slowly sidles up to his owner. What just happened? Hayes explains using an urban analogy: You’re walking alone in New York City at 4 a.m. when you hear shouting, breaking glass and crying. Do you get moving? Obviously. The next night, you hear the same commotion, only this time Arnold Schwarzenegger is by your side, ready to defend you. “Do you run away, or do you stay with Arnold?” Hayes asks. “You stay with Arnold. What I do is teach people to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger to their horse.” Next, Hayes invites me into the ring, hands me the rope and walks outside the fence. “OK, now you’re the leader. What’s it going to take to get Austin to go around?” “Austin, go around,” I shout. “He doesn’t speak English,” Hayes says. I feel stupid. I swing the rope into Austin’s space. He starts trotting circles around me. “Good, keep him going,” Hayes yells. “Now, squat down and look at his hip.” I obey, whereupon Austin stops, then walks up beside me.

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Urban Cowboy Hayes discovered his true calling in life only after riding a long and improbable path. Born and raised in New York City’s Greenwich Village, he didn’t sit on a horse until he was 47 years old. Hayes’ father was one of the real-life “Mad Men” who produced TV commercials on Madison Avenue in the 1950s and ’60s. Like the fictional Don Draper, the elder Hayes was also an alcoholic; he had a temper, and left the family when Hayes was 17. In his book, Hayes describes his parents as “emotionally unavailable and physically unaffectionate.” Beginning when Hayes was 12, they fought frequently and violently. To protect himself physically and emotionally, Hayes says, he became “like a horse”: hypervigilant and constantly searching for “even the tiniest behavioral sign” of imminent danger in his parents’ facial expressions and body language. As he writes, “My desire to control horses through communication, as opposed to force, was in some way linked to the wounded relationship I had with my father and my rejection of his use of force, fear and intimidation to control me and others.” Years later, Hayes would train with some of the world’s foremost experts on natural horsemanship. Many, he discovered, had also suffered from “wounded relationships” with their fathers. Hayes suspects that they rejected the use of force on horses for the same reasons he did. Hayes attended the University of Vermont, initially with the goal of becoming a psychiatrist. After nearly flunking organic chemistry, he abandoned his plan to attend medical school and pursued psychology — but he lacked the grades for grad school. So, after graduating in 1967, Hayes got a job like his dad’s: making films and TV commercials. He spent the next three decades as a writer, director and producer. If you’re old enough to remember such iconic ’70s ad slogans as Alka-Seltzer’s “Try it, you’ll like it” and “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!” you’ve seen his work. By the 1990s, Hayes had already married and divorced; he ran his own production company and had plenty of free time. In 1992, he drove out west on vacation and ended up on a ranch in southern Idaho. Hayes arrived the day the horses were being shoed. The farrier, a man named Black, was a cowboy whose 16-year-old daughter was an Idaho state roping

champion. She had her champion roping horse with them in the trailer. Hayes asked for a ride. “I’d never been on a horse. I knew nothing,” he admits. “Then something happened. I was like, Wow! This horse is so attuned to everything I’m thinking and doing! If I thought I was going too fast, he’d slow down. If I thought we should go that way, he’d go that way.” The Black family owned a 150,000-acre cattle ranch in Bruneau, Idaho. Having never met anyone from New York City before, they invited Hayes to visit the following year and stay for as long as he liked. Over the next four years, Hayes returned every chance he got, learning to ride, rope, brand and cut cattle. He quickly realized he wanted horses in his daily life. “It wasn’t a plan; it wasn’t a dream. Like some people fall in love with golf, I fell in

“I said, ‘First of all, I live in New York City. And second of all, I don’t own a horse,’” Hayes remembers. “Everyone started to laugh in their house. I could hear it!” Hayes went anyway, and Dorrance found him a horse. Later, Hayes sought out other masters of natural horsemanship. Meanwhile, people in New York were hearing about Hayes’ methods, and they began seeking his help with their horses. In 1997, Hayes learned that a state-ofthe-art equestrian center was opening at the Hudson River’s Chelsea Piers. The Chelsea Equestrian Center attracted what Hayes calls “hunter and jumper people” who rode English saddle and did dressage. Wealthy Wall Street types spent thousands of dollars annually just to be members. It was a far cry from Idaho cattle ranching.

eager to please. Years after he first encountered his horse, Hayes observed that riders often choose horses that match them temperamentally and feel intuitively familiar. One reason why people with PTSD often relate better to horses than to other people, he suggests, is that both know what it’s like to live with hypervigilance to one’s surroundings. In fact, Austin would help Hayes cope with traumatic stresses of his own.

No More Horsing Around Three events over 18 months convinced Hayes it was time to devote himself full time to horses. The first occurred after one of his brothers married a Brazilian. One night, while Hayes was visiting them in Rio, men invaded their house, tied everyone up and robbed them at gunpoint.

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love with horses,” he says. “This is what I did when I wasn’t making commercials.” At the time, Hayes owned a second home in East Hampton, Long Island. Beginning in 1993, he volunteered as an instructor and trail guide at Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, the oldest cattle ranch in the United States. It’s where Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders encamped after the Spanish-American War. That same year, Hayes learned about Tom Dorrance. Then 83, the retired rancher and founder of the modern natural horsemanship movement had written a book on gentling horses called True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human. Hayes called the author at his California home and asked if he could learn his methods. Dorrance’s wife, who answered the phone, invited Hayes to attend an upcoming clinic with his horse.

The center invited Hayes to give a demonstration on natural horsemanship, which so impressed the attendees that he was offered a teaching job. Three nights a week, Hayes would leave his Madison Avenue office, hop a cab downtown, duck into a tack room and — “like Superman changing my costume,” he says — swap out his suit and tie for cowboy boots and Wranglers. Hayes taught at the Chelsea Equestrian Center from 1997 until it closed in August 2001. It was there that he met Austin, one of the center’s many horses, all named for the world’s cities: Paris, Boston, Boulder, London, Burlington. When the center folded and the other horses were sold off, Hayes purchased Austin and brought him to Long Island. The two have been together ever since. Austin’s personality seems to mirror Hayes’ own: calm, friendly, smart and

For two hours, Hayes thought his life was over. Not long afterward, on September 11, 2001, Hayes was in his Tribeca apartment four blocks from the World Trade Center when he heard what he thought was a truck backfiring. Outside, at a school across the street, parents dropping off their kids were all staring at the sky. Hayes looked up to see the second plane hit the South Tower. “I must have seen 30 people jump to their death,” he says quietly. When the first of the two towers collapsed, the dust cloud enveloped his building like a shroud. It was evacuated for three months. The following year, Hayes’ mother died. Soon after her death, he remembers, he sat at his Manhattan desk thinking, If not now, when? So he closed his production company and moved to Long Island full time.

In 2012, Hayes returned to Vermont to how to distinguish that firmness from be with his now-fiancée. The couple had aggression. met three and a half years ago while both “The clinic felt like I’d just been were giving horsemanship clinics at UVM. through intense therapy,” she says. “It was Hayes is still a visiting instructor there and really cool.” at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Mary Willmuth is a clinical psyHayes says he decided to write a book chologist at UVM and president of the about horses’ healing ways as he observed board of the Champlain Adaptive Mounted people experiencing powerful “epiphanies” Program at South Hero’s Good Hope Farm. after being with horses even briefly. He Vermont’s oldest therapeutic riding prowatched an autistic girl become less com- gram, CHAMP works with riders who bative and more communicative. An Iraq have various physical, emotional, cognitive combat veteran told him, after spending a and behavioral issues: kids with autism, mere hour with a horse, “This is the first ADHD and Down syndrome; stroke victime since I came back from the war that I tims and people with multiple sclerosis, felt like myself.” spinal cord injuries and PTSD. “Why [should our country] spend $40 Willmuth, herself an avid rider and billion on drugs and talk therapy,” Hayes internationally certified therapeuasks, “when all a guy has to do is spend an tic horseback riding instructor, says hour at a little place like this with a horse?” Silverman’s experiences are consistent What is it about horses that people find with what she sees all the time. Besides so therapeutic? It’s a combination of fac- receiving the many physical benefits tors, Hayes suggests. of riding — such as enhanced balance, “When you’re with a horse … you want coordination and body control — riders to be safe, you want to have fun and you who arrive at the barn agitated, anxious want your horse to feel or distressed often calm the same way,” he says. “So down when they’re on a you’re both mentally conhorse. Less verbal clients nected with each other. The tend to speak more, focus moment you go back in your and engage better with the head to think about someprogram’s staff, she adds. thing else, you leave your Although Willmuth herhorse — and he knows it.” self doesn’t practice natural Johanna Silverman can horsemanship exclusively, relate. Several years ago, she has invited Hayes to the the 54-year-old nurse from farm to give clinics, and says Waterville was diagnosed she sees tremendous benwith PTSD. When she was efits in his approach. 7, her family was in a car ac“I have the utmost recident that killed her father. spect for Tim. He is wonderThe ride in the ambulance ful with horses and wonderwith him seared itself into ful with people, and I love to her memory. watch him work,” she says. mArY WIllmu th, “I remember him lying “He is truly gifted.” chAmpl AIN on the gurney in front of ADAptIVE m ou NtED It’s easy to understand progrAm us, choking on his blood,” why Hayes named his book Silverman says. “And I reRiding Home. It’s what he member my mom saying to me, ‘Oh, he’s helps others do. snoring. He’s asleep.’ For years I cringed “It took me 50 years, but I’m finally a whenever sirens went off.” ‘psychiatrist’ — a horse psychiatrist,” he Less than six months later, Silverman says half-jokingly. “You know what they says, her mother married a man whom she say: ‘If you get to live long enough, your describes as physically and emotionally life will reveal itself.’” m abusive. As an adult, Silverman treated her symptoms with therapy and prescrip- Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com tion meds, but they offered limited relief. Then, a few years ago, she bought a horse. INFo “If I’m having a bad day, just brushing Tim Hayes and Stephanie Lockhart will him or leaning up against him and feel- give a live demonstration of natural ing his breathing grounds me and brings horsemanship and the healing power of me back to where I need to be,” she says horses on Tuesday, October 6, 12:15-1:15 p.m., happily. “It’s therapy for me, because I dis- at the Fields & Courtyards Chapel Lawn, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester. Free sociate all the time.” Several months ago, Silverman took and open to the public. Hayes’ class on natural horsemanship. Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal Though Hayes does not focus specifi- by Tim Hayes, St. Martin’s Press, 304 pages. cally on equine therapy in the class, she $25.99. emphasizes, he helped her by teaching her to be less “noisy” in her body lan- Find out more about Tim Hayes, his book and guage. Silverman also learned not to be natural horsemanship at hayesisforhorses. afraid of being firm with her horse and com and centerforamericasfirsthorse.org.

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with horses and wonderful with people, and I love to watch him work.

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n “Adam’s Curse,” W.B. Yeats describes a paradox in the practice of making poems: “A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.” I was reminded of this back-and-forth between formal eloquence and the illusion of expressive ease as I read two satisfying new books of poems, David Cavanagh’s Straddle and Chard deNiord’s Interstate. They make good companions, read side by side. Both poets are what Cavanagh calls “in-betweeners,” given frequently to what deNiord calls “second thoughts.” Chard deNiord, who lives in Putney, has recently been named the new Vermont poet laureate, and Interstate is his fifth book of poems. David Cavanagh lives in Burlington; until his retirement in 2014, he was codirector of Johnston State College’s external degree program for working students. Like a couple of his previous collections, his fourth book, Straddle, is published by an esteemed Irish press, Salmon Poetry. Both authors are men in their middle years, seasoned in their craft. They share a fascination with how sentences work (and play) across the staves of verse forms in pieces that are rhetorical yet conversational. Both of these books have titles that convey their authors’ attentiveness to life’s volatility, including the transitions caused by aging and the crossing of borders between places or states of being. And both books are particularly well paced, counterpointing ampler pieces (including several of the more beautiful erotic poems of mature love that I’ve read lately) with briefer exclamations, epigrammatic and compressed. Any strong poem is a “straddle” between different levels of awareness, an evocation of an “interstate.” Cavanagh’s poetic territory is juxtapositions and combinations: young and old, woman and man, to and fro, one and all. He’s a dual citizen of Canada and the United States — “Canuck … Yankee,” as he says in the poem “Can-Am.” He’s dual in his artistic temperament as well, incorporating French and English phrases, for instance, into a poem recalling boyhood baseball games: The little anglais with bad eyes peers through the cage of the catcher’s mask, moves by instinct as much as sight toward the hard slider of the wild-ass southpaw till it pops into his mitt

behind the flummoxed batter. Atta boy, Mike, way to go. Deux hommes morts, les gars, deux hommes. This poem, “Behind the Plate in Montreal, 1964,” not only shifts languages in the boy’s vantage but also swings between first-person and third-person narration in a way I’ve never seen done so nimbly: I was the little anglais, though it seems a cool tableau to me now, set there by memory, which calls the pitches and queers the outcomes. Mostly alone he was, hardly anyone to talk to, afraid to try French except for the franglais mishmash of monosyllables the game gave him to hide behind: Heads up, les gars, heads up. Cavanagh can be funny and doleful at once, or tender and roguish. His syntax can coil, then snap, as in this first stanza of the poem “Now and Then”: Afterwards, the hollow and hillock of your belly and mound, small fall and rise with breathing. Decades ago like a slow-motion slap

the sight stunned me, god, so beautiful. Stuns me still. In “Chimes,” he immerses us so deep in sensory description that we may not notice right away that we are reading a single flexing sentence flowing in from the title, rendering those chimes that hang cock-eyed on the porch for years, still ring with each breeze, thin and off-key at first until the ear adjusts and finds a whole new register, a pleasing post-melody loosed from the weathered pipes by the faithful wooden clapper, a persistent minor song with ease given back to the ruffled air. Here’s a brief one, called “Customs,” thematically and dramatically characteristic of Cavanagh’s keen-bladed wit: “Anything to declare?” / asks the border guard. / Oh my. Where to begin?” Chard deNiord is a border crosser of long habit, too. And, judging from many poems told from the vantage of a car, he probably spends a lot of time driving between his home in southern Vermont and his teaching job at Providence College in Rhode Island. In the poems where his narrator is not in a car, he may be in bed (like

Cavanagh, deNiord writes well of amorous awe) or in the woods. Interstate has four sections. Nearly every poem in the first involves intimate encounters with animals, including an ornery colt, a pet dog that kills day-old chicks, a grouse and a doe, mating pigs, an enormous snake, and a bat in a woodstove. These poems are incidental in the sense of pivoting on incidents, but they work like parables as well, asking, What do we see, and what can we learn? This quality deepens and widens as the book proceeds. In the second section, the poems are like riddles, not ambiguous but mischievous and mysterious. Over the past decade, deNiord conducted a vigorous and valuable series of interviews with elder American poets, which were gathered and published in a wonderful book called Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth Century American Poets. Most of his interviewees have now died, and several of them are eulogized powerfully and unsentimentally in Interstate. A particularly enabling presence here is the magnificent Ruth Stone, who is honored directly in one poem and implied in others, especially throughout the book’s fourth part. In his poem “The Gift,” deNiord channels another poet’s own articulation of her task. The poem is presented in quotation marks, as though Stone were speaking in a voice overheard: “All I did was write them down wherever I was at the time, hanging laundry, baking bread, driving to Illinois. My name was attached to them on the page but not in my head because the bird I listened to outside my window said I couldn’t complain about the blank in place of my name if I wished to hold both ends of the wire like a wire and continue to sing instead of complain. It was my plight, my thorn, my gift — the one word in three I was permitted to call it by the Muse who took mercy on me as long as I didn’t explain.” You hear the rhymes, lightly struck. Sometimes deNiord rhymes within the

line, instead of at the more expected endings. Here is “Anchorite in Autumn,” also an evocation of an old person, where the sideslipping rhymes counter what might otherwise settle into a nursery-rhyme gait: She rose from the bed and coughed for an hour. Entered her niche that was also her shower. Shaved her legs with Ockham’s razor. Rinsed her hair with holy water. Opened the curtain that was double-layered. Slipped on her robe in the widening

Any strong poem is A “strAddle” between different levels of AwAreness, an evocation of an “interstate.”

gyre. Gazed in the mirror with gorgeous terror. Took out a cigarette and held it like a flower. Lit it devoutly like the wick of a pyre. Smoked like a thurible in the grip of a friar. Stared out the window at the leaves on fire, fire, fire … These lines are slyly allusive, lofty yet casual and closely observed, roughened in texture by the staggered rhyming, which physicalizes the portrait. Cavanagh’s Straddle and deNiord’s

Interstate are agile, quietly intelligent and steadily pleasurable new books. Will they be noticed in the noisy frenzy that surrounds us? Yes, if readers read them. m

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ike many bus drivers prepping for the first day of school, 57-year-old Neal Taylor was getting his vehicle in order on an August afternoon. First he repaired one of the bench seats inside the 40-foot bus. Next, he inventoried the medical kits and tested the vehicle’s backcountry stoves. He pulled out three guitars to ascertain if they needed new strings. Finally, he updated the library with titles including Active Nonviolence: A Way of Personal Peace, Democracy in Small Groups and Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Clearly this was no ordinary bus — or school. Taylor is a member of the faculty of Expedition Education Institute at Marlboro College. By September, Taylor and his colleague, Bruce Lindwall, had enacted the first ritual of the academic year: pulling open the bus’ passenger-side door to pick up students. However, instead of dropping their charges off at scholastic institutions for the day, these drivers would spend nearly every waking hour with them for the next four months. Taylor and Lindwall are both equipped with CDL Class B licenses — to operate the bus — and PhDs (evolutionary biology and ecology, and plant biology, respectively). On September 1, they embarked on a 2,000-mile field trip with their students that began in Vermont and will conclude

in Texas. The six Marlboro College undergrads will explore issues of energy and climate justice while living and learning out of the retrofitted school bus. For the rest of the semester, those students, their two faculty guides and one faculty intern will prepare their meals, meet, study and sleep outdoors. They’ll visit a wind farm in Massachusetts and communities with coal-fired power plants in West Virginia, learn about natural gas fracking in Pennsylvania, and explore issues related to petroleum drilling and refining along the Gulf Coast. Instead of relying on a single instructor or text, they’ll consort with what EEI’s executive director, Larkspur Morton, calls “resource people” — regionally based writers, scientists, activists, educators and community leaders. Marlboro’s newest program may appear to be in the startup phase as it rambles out of the Marlboro parking lot on its first fullsemester voyage. But EEI is actually the revival of a 40-year-old educational model. When I was a student participating in an earlier incarnation of the program, for four semesters in 1992 and 1993, it was known as the Audubon Expedition Institute. Today, its 3,000-plus alumni call it simply “the Bus.” Now the Bus has made a round trip, relaunching with accreditation from Marlboro

College — 80 miles from Killington, where it all started in the late 1960s. Using a school bus as the vehicle not just to education but of education was the brainchild of Michael Cohen, an educator and “eco-psychologist” who founded the Trailside Country School as a secondary institution. He and his then-wife, Diana Becker, took students on the road, conducting bus-based expeditions to the nation’s West and Southwest. Cohen chronicled his unique educational model in his 1974 book Our Classroom Is Wild America: Trailside Education in Action — Encounters with Self, Society and Nature in America’s First Ecology Expedition School. “The human race has lost its way,” he wrote. “The road upward from the savage does not necessarily lead to the cluttered, materialistic and, at times, desperate life that we presently live.” By the time Cohen resigned in 1985, the Trailside School had transitioned into an accredited undergraduate program, and it continued as AEI under Becker’s leadership. While AEI operated under the aegis of Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., in the following decades, the founding characteristics of Cohen’s experiential learning community persisted. Former AEI faculty member Ben Williams wrote his doctoral thesis about

that community, describing its premise as “simplifying life in order to understand the sources of our environmental dilemmas.” Instead of studying on campuses equipped with dorms, cafeterias, student centers and laboratories, Williams observes, students on a typical Bus expedition shared responsibility for “preparing food and shopping for a group … finding campgrounds, mapping routes, maintaining the bus, studying, finding libraries, planning curriculum and schedule.” The program also moved away from conventional academic hierarchies, he writes; while teachers on the Bus “maintained authority,” they tended “toward a less structured position of guide.” For 25 more years, the Bus rolled along, expanding to incorporate a graduate program and simultaneous expeditions on multiple buses. Students explored landscapes affected by complex issues such as water use in the West, mining and Native American rights in the Southwest and clear-cut logging in the Pacific Northwest. In 2010, Lesley University, which then had full administrative management of AEI, hit the brakes. The school cited funding issues, and the program came to a halt. But alumni wouldn’t let the Bus run out of gas. They raised $20,000 in support of the program’s revival, and former Bus faculty forged a new partnership with Marlboro College. The new organization, EEI, purchased one of Lesley’s remaining Thomas Built diesel school buses, which was already retrofitted with LED lights, cubbies, Igloo coolers, a library and a few guitars.

The Bus is a way to infuse theoretical arguments and book-based research

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The six students enrolled this year won’t make the program solvent; to hit that goal, says Morton, EEI will need a minimum of 16 students. Nonetheless, the new-old program has gained enough momentum to start rolling again. For students like Marlboro senior Ian Hitchcock of Wyoming, the Bus is a way to infuse theoretical arguments and book-based research with rubber-meetsthe-road experience. Hitchcock’s plan of concentration (Marlboro’s equivalent of a major) involves “examining social responses to climate change,” he said. He has pursued that study through one-on-one tutorials with faculty exploring the psychology, history, sociology and literature of “the bystander effect.” Now he’s ready to get some hands-on knowledge. Hitchcock admitted that he’s not sure how he’ll be able to combine life on the Bus with writing the paper he needs to submit

to his campus adviser, John Sheehy. The vehicle has few electrical outlets, no phone-charging portals and no internet. But, Hitchcock said, he has assured the prof that he’ll complete his work. Another EEI participant, Helen Walz, is a gap-year student from Minneapolis who confesses that she’s still “figuring it all out.” She’s passionate about the sciences, she said, and may pursue an engineering degree, but for now she wants to learn more about the intersection of environmental issues and her chosen disciplines. Two days before EEI’s Bus was scheduled to depart from the Marlboro campus, students and faculty convened in a circle in the shade of a hemlock grove near the college’s solar greenhouse. Taylor balanced a whiteboard on his lap and used a marker to scribble down terminology and statistics. “Does anyone know the average caloric intake needed per day?” he asked. The group had been discussing food likes and dislikes in anticipation of grocery shopping for an upcoming backpacking trip in the Adirondacks and preparing their meals on the Bus. Aptly, Taylor reframed the discussion around the theme of energy. He held up the whiteboard to display the term “EROI” — energy return on investment. Next, he asked student to consider the weight and nutrition value of

Wes Gillingham leading a discussion with students

a cabbage compared with that of a block of cheese. For the next 15 minutes, the conversation ranged widely, touching on the best foods to carry into the backcountry, industrial strategies for extracting fossil fuels, and the socioeconomic ramifications of finding and purchasing organic foods while traveling through the rural Southeast. Yet the students managed to find the connections between those seemingly disparate topics — a pattern I remember well from my own time on the Bus. Between rolling up my sleeping bag, boiling water to wash pots and singing folk songs as the bus barreled toward another rendezvous with a resource person, I got an education

that strayed well beyond the boundaries of course descriptions, showing me how different disciplines could inform one another. Officially, these new EEI students will earn 15 credits this semester, completing requirements for five different courses with names such as Leading and Learning for Transformation and Resilience, and Energy Issues and Sustainable Solutions. For gap-year, transfer and regularly matriculated students, the cost of the program can be covered in multiple ways, including Marlboro tuition, through which students are eligible for financial aid. For the faculty, this relaunch of the Bus is the culmination of years of dogged efforts. A veteran instructor for the Bus

program, 61-year-old Lindwall said he feels giddy excitement about returning: “Do I really get to do this again?” He admitted that he also wonders if he has the stamina for a 24-7 work commitment: “Can I really run that hard for that long?” he asked rhetorically. Both Lindwall and Taylor will be back for EEI’s spring semester, a trip focused on sustainable food and farming in California. Taylor’s emotions ran high as he recalled getting behind the Bus’ wheel and starting its engine for the first time since 2010. That happened in 2013, when EEI offered students a 10-day immersion course in extreme energy during their fall break. Embarking on that trip, Taylor scanned the wide mirror above his dashboard, surveying the Bus’ contents: kitchen implements bungeed securely in the back, books tucked away on the shelves, tents and sleeping bags piled high in the tent bin, and students talking excitedly on the bench seats behind him. To his surprise, Taylor said, he felt a small knot of emotion in his throat. Then he fixed his eyes on the road ahead and drove. m

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Oh, no! This was exactly what I had been warned about. My pulse raced. Worst-case scenarios flashed before my eyes. I felt like Arnold Schwarzenegger yelling, “Get to da choppa!” in Predator. How many professors had my mother already contacted without bothering to tell me? Maybe all of them! She probably sent them baked goods and my high school senior photo so they would remember my face. I imagined tenured professors sipping locally roasted coffee as they chortled at the young Lynch boy whose mother emailed about an extension, argued a grade or asked if I seemed to be getting along with my classmates. My adviser, the very professor my mother wanted to contact, would react especially poorly. I imagined him sitting at his desk, working though his emails, reading my mother’s plea for help. He is not really the computer type, nor the ask-mother-for-help type. He is more the I-was-onthe-Oxford-boxing-team, my-drive-to-the-lane-is-savage, I-take-care-of-myself type. Surely he would spit out the tacks he’d had for breakfast as he read, “Hi, Dan, my name is Barb, I am James’ mother.” I was going to look softer than a Pillow Pet, the intellectual equivalent of undercooked raisin bread. I blurted out, “No!” to my mother as quickly as I could,

but I knew it wouldn’t be enough. “No” was a mere diversion for a helicopter parent. I was the awkward and gangly matador sidestepping a charging bull. (Though, in fairness, this bull is incredibly caring and makes a delicious spinach quiche.) I had to do more. After convincing my mother that I would determine what classes to take by myself, I put my best effort into figuring out how to avoid her helicoptering in the future. If my mother was frustrated by my indifference and limited knowledge, I would give her as much as I could. From that point on, I began to share with her enough information to bore a Supreme Court justice. If she wanted to know what was going on, I told her. It would not suffice to say my Greek history class was “great.” Instead, I described in great detail the heroic escape of Arion upon the backs of wild dolphins. While my mom was on her lunch break, I gave her my analysis of the 73rd Federalist Paper and the veto power of the executive. I told her about every new friend, every class, everything. I gave her helicopter a turbulence of information it could not handle. On one phone call, to see just how uncomfortable I could make her, I told my mother about a job listing for an alligator wrestler on craigslist. The position “had always been a dream of mine,” I told her. I eagerly awaited hearing her concern, gleefully

anticipated her squirming. But all she said was, “Yeah, just be safe, James. Thanks for letting me know what you are doing.” What? OK, I thought the job sounded cool, but I told my mother about it to scare her, more than anything. I didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to wrestle alligators. The prospect of waving hello with three and a half fingers for the rest of my life just didn’t seem all that great. My mother was being unbelievably cool. She didn’t call my professors or question my judgment. She seemed to trust me and let me do what I was interested in doing. It was almost as if … what she wanted all along was for me to take responsibility. Though I didn’t pursue the alligatorwrestling job, my mother did not object when I pursued other questionable activities: guiding treks in the mountains of New Mexico, canoeing to New York City, studying abroad in Amsterdam. My mother had turned from a helicopter parent into a just-tellme-what-the-heli-ishappening-in-your-life parent. Perhaps I will suggest that my professor start his next freshman class not with a lecture about avoiding phone calls, but rather with one about making them: “Call your parents,” he could say “They’re probably pretty cool.” m

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of a ghostly hound are true? Flaky suspicions are just what Holmes was born to explode; he’ll take the case, protect young Henry Baskerville from untimely death and find the logical answer. In this play’s world, though, Holmes is a little too lost in his own fame to do much deducing, and Watson is overloaded with potential suspects sporting false beards and shifty looks. Clues are few, and none matters as much as the punch lines. This production is so playful that it’s harder to stop laughing than to start. Conan Doyle’s story has been adapted for stage and screen many times, but this version from Brit wits Canny and Nicholson uses the quickchange, wink-wink style of The 39 Steps to dazzle the audience. Three actors play 16 roles and spend a little time as their real-life selves, as well. The play

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playing over an open, childlike face that gleams as he struggles to marshal his suspicions. A precise comic, he carves out just the right amount of space and time for each joke, never overselling or under-delivering. Leighton Samuels is the third leg of a rock-solid ensemble. He plays Henry, as well as assorted sources of exposition and/or gags, starting with a standout death scene to introduce and quickly dispatch Charles Baskerville. Samuels uses just enough exaggeration to amplify his characters without making them parodies. His accents are fun, and he moves with such limber abandon that he’s a pleasure to watch die, lunge, feel and then fight off a heart attack, light up with proper English lust at the sight of the fan-fluttering Cecile, and jump from costume to costume. With more than 400 sound and light cues, this production relies on precise technical execution from actors and crew. The few and forgivable mishits on Thursday only prove that human beings are at the controls of this complex apparatus. Designers Alex Zinovenko, lighting, and Frank DiSalvo Jr., sound, shower us with effects that energetically propel the story. Charis Churchill’s costumes and Janine Woods-Thoma’s set design produce a comic fantasy world. The play is no homage to Holmes, but it does honor the great detective’s willingness to challenge appearances and assumptions. By fooling with theater’s boundaries and conventions for creating illusion, the show invites the audience to laugh its way to a little discovery: What’s real and what’s false is all a matter of being in on the trick. m

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tad shaky here, he’s more interested in proclaiming himself a mastermind than doing much real deducing. Even the attempt to utter Holmes’ quintessential pronouncement, “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” is foiled in a hilarious, bumbled paraphrase. Comedy should be enjoyed, not dissected, but it’s worth noticing a bit of the craft underneath this nonstop funny performance. Under Keenan’s direction, the three fine actors produce their hilarious effects with enormous economy. There’s no wiggling, jabbering or look-at-me mugging. Often broad comic characters are built from such excess, but this production produces far funnier results with a less-is-more philosophy. The show’s bedrock principle is perfect, crisp exchanges. Each actor supports the others, sometimes literally — you’ll be surprised who ends up in whose arms. Instead of competing for laughs, they keep turning the spotlight cleanly on each other. With a lot of quick changes, Christopher Scheer plays Holmes and pretty much all the threats, real and imagined, to Henry Baskerville’s wellbeing. These include a highly suspicious butler, a creepy naturalist and the exotic Cecile, whose presumed beauty, lush Spanish accent and proficiency in the tango captivate the young Baskerville. Scheer is masterful in making Sherlock pompous enough to be funny but never hateful in his vanity. He grasps at dignity with a shake of his cloak and pontificates with a languid confidence. His self-absorption is so complete that, like Watson, we really don’t want to wake him. In this story, Watson is the main protagonist, charged with collecting clues on Sherlock’s behalf. Scott Renzoni plays the role with endearing zeal, a sidekick hoping for his big break. Alas, deep-seated panic has him reaching too reflexively for his gun, and it’s as flat and fake as the other props. Renzoni gives Watson little flickers of understanding,

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Yet, unless you grew up in the Mediterranean, that parallel might be lost on you. Far from yielding, fresh fruits, the figs at the grocery store were probably shipped from California before they could ripen. The issue of food miles aside, travel simply doesn’t suit the ficus fruit. As Lawrence put it, “ripe figs won’t keep.” Steve Colangeli knows that well. A ripe fig has a shelf life of only three days after it’s picked, says the Charlotte farmer, who has been growing seven cold-hardy fig varieties at his small Paradiso Farm. For the past year, Colangeli has been defying the conventional wisdom that figs are a warm-climate crop — and helping local chefs to rediscover the joy of the fruit in its freshest form.

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Colangeli is no stranger to adventurous agriculture. He’s tried his hand at growing apple and pear trees, exotic pawpaws, and goji berries. And though his grandparents once grew figs back in New Rochelle, N.Y., Colangeli didn’t consider growing them in Vermont until 2012, when “farmdener” Lee Reich lectured on the subject at the winter Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont conference. As Colangeli leads a reporter into his Charlotte greenhouse, the musk of 35 ripening fig trees, as well as turmeric and ginger plants, fills the nose. Mira, a 20pound, blue-eyed miniature Australian shepherd, follows at his heels. “I thought it would take four years to sell them, but look where we are,”

Colangeli says with wonder. He indicates an Italian honey fig tree laden with cream-colored fruit: “I counted 130 figs on that one.” Examining more closely, one can see honey oozing from some of the fruits’ “eyes” — the tiny seam on their round bottoms — that indicates that they’re ready for plucking. When he was preparing to grow figs himself, Colangeli got to know one of his father’s acquaintances, “an old Italian lady” in Old Lyme, Conn., who had a two-story fig tree in her front yard. In winter, she would bend the tree over and cover it in insulation to help it resist the chill. From

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A FEASt oF FigS So you want to eat some fresh figs. Though they all share the same basic teardrop-shaped anatomy, different varieties can have starkly different tastes. Here’s a guide to some of the types grown at Paradiso Farm. SEVENDAYSVt.com

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explains, a cut branch grows and produces figs quickly. For now, his plants winter in “a big insulated closet.” Future plans include experimenting with high tunnels to see which fig varieties might survive all of Vermont’s seasons outside. Colangeli also hopes to expand his stock to 50 trees — not including the ones that he sells to other growers — so he’ll have more figs to supply to restaurants and food producers. In his second summer of reaching out to kitchens, he’s already making a name for himself on the culinary scene. Chef David Hugo of the Inn at Shelburne Farms led the charge last year when he began plating salads and desserts featuring the fruit. One recent example showcased slices of honey figs, candied walnuts and Champlain Valley Creamery’s triple cream, all piled atop greens and wreathed by plums. This September, Adam Spell of Shelburne’s Gusto Gelato has used a case of Colangeli’s figs in a limited-edition gelato. And Bret Hamilton of Stone Corral Brewery is currently at work on a fig-and-ginger beer made from ingredients grown at Paradiso Farm. The new brew is set to debut on September 26 at his Richmond taproom. But no local chef has embraced Colangeli’s figs with the fervor of Marc Provencher at Shelburne’s Taverna Khione. Provencher discovered the farm this summer when he searched online for local figs to flavor his Greek dishes. “The fact that it came up with something right down the street was great,” he recalls.

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be a vendor at the Shelburne Farmers Market and share the fruits of his labor directly with customers. The eventual goal is to have 10,000 figs available per season. Yet growth presents Colangeli with a unique quandary: As the only fig grower in Vermont, he has no competitors to help him set pricing. He currently charges $1 a fig but is certain he could go much higher. “In Turkey, these are marketed as natural Viagra,” Colangeli says with a naughty grin. “I could sell these for $20 apiece.” And the demand is materializing. As word gets out about his uncommon crop, people track him down. Most recently, Colangeli has been hosting Bosnian immigrants eager to buy trees to grow on their new land. As the figs dissolve in their mouths, he says, they recapture the lost flavors of their childhoods. While Colangeli has big plans for his figs, he admits that, for now, most of them never leave the greenhouse. It seems that the sensuous appeal of a sweet fig can be too tempting for the farmer to share. m

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Provencher has been using the fruit to create nightly specials. In a single salad, he’ll include as many varieties as possible to showcase the particular aesthetic qualities of each one. “I make sure we cut up three different ones and present it so the fig is showing, so you can see how beautiful it is inside,” he explains. Besides selling to restaurants, Colangeli hopes that next year he’ll

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hen the leaves start to crisp, the mornings cool and tourists begin their annual leaf-peeping pilgrimage down Route 100, many Vermonters transform from sleek, summer humans into gnomish Shire clichés in flannel-lined Carhartts, knit socks and Johnson woolens. Suddenly we’re picking apples and pressing cider in long-john layers and homespun sweaters. At day’s end, we gaze westward, tethering ourselves to the season’s final golden rays, clutching darkening harvest beers. From now until Thanksgiving, we sustain ourselves on these pleasures — and pumpkins galore. Well, maybe.. Actually living in Vermont means we can pick and choose which of these fantasies to embrace, and which to leave to the hicks and hippies. Regarding those fall beers: Local brewers — and drinkers — seem to be tiring of the old formula. Bottle shops remain stocked with mass-market pumpkin beers about now, but you’d be hard-pressed to find an up-and-coming Vermont brewery that’s released more than limited runs of a squashy new brew in the last two years. As brewers resist the productionbased “seasonal drift” that forces autumn beers onto the shelves in late summer, they’re increasingly opting for styles grounded in tradition. And smaller breweries seem inclined to make whatever they want, regardless of the time of year. For hopheads who would rather turn into a pumpkin than drink one, fall 2015 is shaping up to be palate friendly, indeed. With the inaugural Vermont Beer Week wrapping up this weekend, brewers have been pouring dozens of new brews that span light and bright to malty and black. Find the seven picks below at Oktoberfest Vermont in Burlington, at SIPtemberfest in Fayston and at Beer Week events through Sunday, September 27 … and onward into autumn.

One of the fun things about living near any border is that “local” means “nearby,” geographical distinctions notwithstanding. In Brattleboro, Hermit Thrush coowner/brewmaster Christophe Gagné works just minutes from Four Star Farms in Northfield, Mass., which produces some of New England’s finest homegrown hops. This fall, Gagné honed in on three varieties — Magnum, Rakau (aka AlphAroma) and Teamaker — in three batches of single-hop sour beer. Each brew begins with pale or extrapale ale malt, soured in the kettle and wet-hopped with whole cones of its featured botanical. The result? Three distinct, super-tart pale ales with rich, juicy hop flavors ranging from Magnum’s pineapple and grapefruit to Rakau’s ripe mango and passion fruit to Teamaker’s fragrant jasmine, black tea and dried fruits. The hyper-local hops also impart a certain terroir that reflects the character of the region and farm. “These hops taste totally different than from anywhere else,” Gagné says. “Magnum is usually herby and spicy, but theirs has those tropical fruit aromas.” Sample the new sours at Hunger Mountain Co-op on Thursday, September 24, or on draft at bars and restaurants for the next month or so. Look for Rakau in cans at Winooski’s Beverage Warehouse and Waterbury’s Craft Beer Cellar.

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After raiding friends’ gardens earlier this summer, Drop-In brewmaster Steve Parkes and crew spent months test-batching a new beer flavored with strawberries and rhubarb. Several brews later, they figured it out: Parkes fermented a base beer using half barley, half wheat and just a touch of hops, then aged it on the stewed fruit. He kegged it just in time for the Vermont Heritage Brew Festival at Shelburne Museum on Labor Day weekend. The lightweight, barely wheaty brew opens with the scent of strawberries, which stay front and center throughout the sip and impart a tinge of sweetness. Rhubarb is a quiet undertone, bringing mild astringency and a clean, crisp finish. It’s an unexpected brew from Parkes, who is known for brewing balanced, traditional beers. But lately the career brewer has broken that mold. In July Parkes poured a wacky Keylime-pie beer at Vermont Brewers Festival, and folks filed into queues for a sip. “I guess we’re enjoying a newfound frivolity in what we’re doing,” he says. “It’s nice to do something totally silly.” Get it at SIPtemberfest this weekend, or at Killington Brewfest from October 3 to 5. The beer is also on tap at Drop-In — until it’s gone.

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I’ve always been fond of Crop’s Idletyme IPA. The beer blends complex flavors — fruit and herbs, citrus and malt — and packs a boozy kick without numbing your tongue. Like most of brewmaster Will Gilson’s creations, it’s more of an exercise in balance and restraint than a full-frontal sensory assault. Gilson introduced the double version, brewed on pale ale malts with Eureka and Equinox hops earlier this summer, but availability was sporadic until recently. Golden amber in color, Doubletyme is denser and cloudier than the original — Idletyme’s nice, older sibling, let’s say — with pleasant, grapefruit-y hops and subtle florals on the nose. The sip is all citrus and juice with a mild, bitter bite. As it warms, tropical fruits dominate, with a hint of bubblegum. Overall, Doubletyme is a gentle DIPA, smooth and agreeable, the kind of beer you’ll want to cozy up to and get to know better. Just be careful: It’s a full 8 percent ABV.

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This weekend, Burlington hosts more than 30 local, regional and international brewers at its inaugural Oktoberfest Vermont celebration in Waterfront Park. Most of them are bringing a Märzen-style (aka Oktoberfest) lager. The style was traditionally brewed in Munich in spring, conditioned in caves and drunk through summer’s end. Stein-wielding Bavarians would finish it off during their marathon fall festival, which ends the first week of October.

Switchback brewed the style for the first time a year ago. Malty but crisp, with a direct hop character and clean finish, it was the alefocused brewery’s first lager and, with it, co-owner/brewmaster Bill Cherry threw a total ringer. The beer was so popular that Cherry kept it in production for months. Now, after a warmweather hiatus, it’s back and widely available. Will its sophomore season last all winter?

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Named for Burlington’s fetid Barge Canal, Queen City head brewer Paul Hale’s oatmeal extra stout funnels a veritable cereal bowl of oats, flaked barley, and Scottish and English malts into every sip. It’s a heady amalgamation of grains and sweetness. Barge Canal pours straight black with an amber head and with a roast-y malt aroma that transforms from sweet grains to toffee/coffee on the tongue, with just a bit of dark java-cherry fruit. Though not as coating as Guinness, it’s a thick, creamy, mouth-filling sipper with small-bubbled effervescence to cut through the murk. It’s available at the brewery, on draft at local bars and restaurants, and — since Queen City started shipping retail bottles this summer — perhaps on the shelf at your favorite filling station, along with Hale’s stellar Oktoberfest lager and a rotating cast of other brews. Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com

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town hub the Country Pantry Diner closed in 2009. Since then, a number of owners have operated the restaurant for brief stints under that name and others, culminating in a lengthy closure that started last June. Now the rumor mill can rest. RoN and liNDA fREY returned life to the building with the opening of ERicA’S AmERicAN DiNER on Monday, September 21. Franklin County residents may already know the pair as

stacks and creative burgers. For now, the options are identical to those at 2-year-old Linda’s, but Frey said that will change as the couple gets to know its new Fairfax clientele. — A.l.

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Disclosure: Mark Babson is married to one of reporter Hannah Palmer Egan’s close friends.

It’s been a long rough patch for Fairfax’s 951 Main Street. After more than 20 years in business,

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home. Two years ago, he left Woodstock, secured funding and found a space in downtown White River Junction, where he has installed a 10-barrel brew system. When RiVER RooSt BREwERY opens later this fall, Babson will likely offer hop-centric pale ales alongside maltier brews such as an English-style brown ale. Winter will bring oatmeal stout. He’ll sell the beers in kegs to bars and restaurants and pour growlers in the brewery’s tasting bar and retail shop, along with bottled specialty beers (think barrel-aged and Belgian styles). While the opening date is still TBD, River Roost will become the largest of the area’s three breweries, joining two in nearby Tunbridge:

owners of purple-hued liNDA’S in St. Albans. Ron Frey said on Monday morning that seeing the space vacant for so long made him and his wife feel a responsibility to feed the Fairfax community. They’re now doing so seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. All the items on Erica’s four-page-long menu are available all day. Even after dark, diners can try what the menu bills as the “world’s greatest breakfast sandwich.” It features a sweet Mexican-style telera roll stacked with two fried eggs, sausage and cheese, all drizzled in maple syrup. Lunch and dinner at Erica’s bring a slew of hot sandwiches, including gravy-covered open

Put down your cellphone, your laptop and your tablet, and dig out that dusty old typewriter for the second Type-In. Fans of Remingtons, Smith Coronas and Underwoods get an old-fashioned workout hauling their key-and-ink contraptions to Maglianero Café in Burlington. Longtime typists and neophytes alike are welcome to show, trade and sell their devices, compete in creative writing and speed-typing contests, and enter a raffle to win one of two printproducing machines. Organizer and Vermont Vintage Typewriters blogger Dave Wells is keyed up to offer a videoconference with Richard Polt, author of The Typewriter Revolution.

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PASTEL PAINTING WORKSHOP: Using a favorite photo as inspiration, artists learn the basics of the medium and experiment with different paper and supplies. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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TURNON BURLINGTON: Communication games encourage participants to push past comfort zones and experience deep connections. OneTaste Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us.

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AFROLATIN PARTY: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; party, 8-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572. DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $13. Info, 540-8300. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: Jigs, reels and strathspeys for all ability levels exercise the body and the mind. Bring water and soft-soled shoes. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $7.50. Info, 879-7618. WEST AFRICAN DANCE WITH LIVE DRUMMING: Beats fuel authentic Guinean and Malian movement. Bring personal water. Burlington Memorial Auditorium Loft, 5:30-7 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy donors give the gift of life. See redcrossblood.org for details. United Church of Chelsea, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 800-7332767. Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 12:30-6 p.m. LAMA CHOPA TSOG: Those pursuing a spiritual path access positive energy by honoring the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

Sunday, September 27, 1-5 p.m., at Maglianero Café in Burlington. Free. Info, vermontvintagetypewriter@gmail.com. vermontvintagetypewriter.blogspot.com

Decent Exposure For a performance artist like Janice Perry, whose body is her medium, a 30-foot fall and the resulting injuries are serious business. Referring to the incident as an epic “literal and figurative fall from grace,” the multimedia maven mines the experience for material for her one-woman show Naked at the Met. With previous stage shows such as Holy Sh*t! Stories From Heaven and Hell and Not Just Another Pretty Face, Perry has tackled issues of gender, power and global politics head on with what Opening Doors calls “vulnerability, fierceness and wild humor.” Perry sheds her inhibitions and more at the FlynnSpace.

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BARRE FARMERS MARKET: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437. KILLINGTON RESTAURANT WEEK: Foodies unite! Area eateries offer prix-fixe menus highlighting a variety of cuisines and specialty foods. See discoverkillington.com for details. Various Killington locations. Cost of food and drink. Info, 422-2105.

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MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 377-2980.

Friday, September 25, 7:30 p.m., at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $21-25. Info, 8635966. flynntix.org

NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the seasonal bounty. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206. RUTLAND COUNTY FARMERS MARKET: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 753-7269. WINE TASTING: Samples of California merlot please palates at a sipping session complete with bread and cheese. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: ‘RAMS’: Two brothers locked in an ongoing feud do all they can to avoid communication with each other to dryly funny results in this subtitled 2015 film. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 & 7 p.m. $6-12. Info, 603-646-2422.

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VALLEY NIGHT: Matt Schrag provides the soundtrack for a weekly bash with craft ales and movies. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994. WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: Giddyap! Visitors explore the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE: Participants converse freely in a confidential space without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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n a YouTube video of his performance duo ShepparddeS, Barak adé Soleil enters the dance floor in a wheelchair, then, using a pair of forearm crutches, lifts himself out of his seat and begins to move. An artist, curator and consultant, Soleil says that while audience members may approach dancers with disabilities “with their perceptions of what a particular body may do,” he hopes they’ll come away with a new perspective. As a performer of color, his work also aims to spark conversations at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and disability. Soleil is a featured performer and speaker at the Clifford Symposium themed “The ‘good’ Body.”

BARAK ADÉ SOLEIL Artist talk, Thursday, September 24, 4:30 p.m., at Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Free. Performance, Saturday, September 26, 8 p.m., at the Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Free. Info, 443-3168. middlebury.edu

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Insight Meditation: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694. Meditation & Discussion Group: Teacher Barry Weiss encourages participants to quiet the mind for increased energy and decreased stress and anxiety. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. Mindful Workweeks: Wednesday Night Meditation: Give your brain a break at a midweek “om” session followed by tea and conversation. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136. Nia With Linda: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: Ma’am, yes, ma’am! An exercise expert helps folks increase strength, energy and agility. Call for details. Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

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Brush Bots: Tinkerers ages 6 and up use toothbrushes and tiny motors to craft moving robots. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420. Chess Club: Players use strategic moves to capture the king. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. DCF Book Club: Eager readers in fourth grade and above voice opinions about Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award winner The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Music & Movement Story Time: Wee ones get the wiggles out with songs and narratives. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. ‘Running on E’: The Improbable Players present an emotional play portraying four friends divided by their opinions about drinking and drug use. Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2725.

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‘The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God’: Sensuous choreography and a soaring soundscape support Djanet Sears’ play rooted in African storytelling traditions. Centaur Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $25-53.50. Info, 514-288-3161.

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Audrey Bernstein Quartet: The jazz singer, accompanied by Joe Capps, John Rivers and Geza Carr, stuns with her virtuosic vocal stylings. Juniper, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5027. ‘Bern Down For What?’: A Benefit Concert for Bernie Sanders: Five local bands strike up in support of the presidential candidate while politically active attendees register to vote and offer campaign donations. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

Zumba: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dance-fitness phenomenon for all experience levels. Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

Gender Pride Book Club: Page-turners evoke lively discussions among readers. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

Wednesday Night Sound Meditation: The sacred sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, gong, didgeridoo and drum send participants on a journey exploring body, heart and soul. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0186.

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La Scala Classic Operas: ‘La Donna Del Lago’: A broadcast screening treats opera devotees to a performance of Rossini’s famous work. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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Robert Belenky: There won’t be a dull moment when the psychologist excerpts Capt’n Bob’s Adventures in Child Psychology. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Tea & Brushes: Artists ages 16 and up tap into their creative sides at a painting party led by Julie Griffis. Fairfax Community Library, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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Strategy for Success Series: ‘Blogging Boot Camp for Businesses’: Author Joy Choquette outlines how online content can attract potential customers and augment marketplace presence. St. Albans Free Library, 4-5:30 p.m. $10; free for members; preregister; limited space. Info, 524-2444.

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Jennifer Pharr Davis: The 2012 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year retraces her steps in “My Ongoing Love Affair With the Appalachian Trail.” Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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Classical Ballet Master Class: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performers school intermediate and advanced students ages 16 and up in contemporary steps. Straus Dance Studio, Berry Sports Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 603-646-2422. Scottish Country Dancing: See WED.23.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.23, Tracy Hall, Norwich, noon-5:30 p.m. Williamstown Middle/High School, 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Live Broadcast of Pope Francis Address: Climate change, economic justice and immigration are likely to be on the agenda when the Catholic Church official speaks to a joint session of Congress. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. & 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5630.

Falls Prevention Workshop: In recognition of Falls Prevention Awareness Day, therapists from the University of Vermont conduct individualized screenings and promote practices for getting around safely. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-2518.

Women’s Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com for details. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

Manufactured in Vermont: A business-tobusiness trade show and conference connects makers with contractors for enhanced supply chain opportunities. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 262-0138.

Creative Writing Workshop: Chapter Focus: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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Bikes for Beginners Workshop: A lesson in DIY maintenance readies cyclists for on-the-road repairs. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5:307:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, christine@ bikerecyclevt.org.

Clifford Symposium: “The ‘good’ Body” guides a three-day exploration of the role of physicality in defining public and private identities. Middlebury College, noon. Free. Info, 443-6433.

Feast & Field Market: Locally grown produce, homemade tacos and jazz standards and originals by the Neptunes are on the menu at a pastoral party. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391.

D RY JO The Blackberry Bushes & BU HN ’ | CO DLE Reckless Breakfast: Americana, U R TE S Y O F MI D bluegrass and good vibes carry through the museum when the two string bands perform agriculture an acoustic concert. Main Street Museum, White Workshop: Myco-landscaping: Welcome to River Junction, 8 p.m. $10; BYOB. Info, 356-2776. Mycology 101! Members of MoTown Mushrooms Singers & Players of Instruments: teach the basics of cultivating gourmet and meMusicians of all levels bring voices and gear to dicinal species. Hinge, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free; meet and mingle with fellow performers. The preregister. Info, 923-3088. Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. art

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Brendan Kelly: Western environmentalism meets Chinese medicine in The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

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Recovery Community Yoga: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

University of Vermont Petersen Lecture, Part 1: Amazonian archaeology scholar Michael Heckenberger takes to the podium at the first installment of the lecture series honoring archaeologist Jim Petersen. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 479-1928.

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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.

Intermediate/Advanced Spanish Conversation Group: Language learners hone their skills en español with instructor Maigualida Gomez. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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Push-ups in the Park: Fitness fanatics get a sweat on at a fast and furious workout that benefits local charities. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 6-7 a.m. $5-15 suggested donation. Info, 658-0949.

Rutland Death Café: Folks meet for a conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

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Drop-In Gentle Hatha Yoga: Guided by breath, students rest, restore and rejuvenate in a sequence of slow movements. Bring a personal mat. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Beginner English Language Class: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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Dungeons & Dragons Night: Quick thinkers 14 and up, grouped by age, rely on invented personas to face challenges and defeat enemies. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Johnson State College Free Speaker Series: Professor James Bozeman examines the electoral equation in “Using Math and Computer Science to Help Ensure Competitive Elections.” Room 207. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.

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Story Time & Playgroup: Engrossing plots unfold into activities for kids up to age 6 and their grown-ups. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Burlington Walk/Bike Council Meeting: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians. Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-2700, ext. 103. M.A.G.I.C.: Masculinity and Gender Identity Conversation: Folks of any and all gender identities convene for a casual discussion of topics ranging from inequality to language and media to food. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 370-5369.

Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: Explorations of the inn and its grounds culminate in a traditional cup-and-saucer affair. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442. Tech Tutor Program: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.

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ITVFest: Fans of indie cinema fête the industry’s top talents at the annual Independent Television and Film Festival. Various Dover locations, 11 a.m.7 p.m. $49-400. Info, 780-0031. ‘Q: The Winged Serpent’: An unemployed piano player is the only person who can stop a flying lizard from wreaking havoc in this 1982 film as part of the Cinema Casualties series. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. Telluride at Dartmouth: ‘45 Years’: A secret surfaces, causing a rift between a longtime couple in this 2015 drama. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 & 7 p.m. $6-12. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Who Pays the Price?’: Director Heather White leads a discussion following a screening of the documentary that tallies the human cost of electronics production. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, preshow reception, 6 p.m.; screening and discussion, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 457-3981. ‘The Wolfpack’: This 2015 documentary sheds light on six brothers whose father confined them to their Manhattan apartment until adulthood. A discussion follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Foundation members. Info, 864-7999.

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Bark & Brew Series: Pups romp around the HSCC play yard while snacks and craft beers tempt pet owners’ taste buds. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 702-985-8980.

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Killington RestauRant WeeK: See WED.23. Milton FaRMeRs MaRKet: Honey, jams and pies alike woo seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009. on-FaRM DinneR: Diners dig into Thai chicken wraps made with farm-raised ingredients, then wet their whistles with fresh-pressed cider. A tour follows. Peace of Earth Farm, Albany, 5:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336. uVM MeDical centeR FaRMeRs MaRKet: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 847-5823. WateRbuRy FaRMeRs MaRKet: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-7679.

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clinical aRoMatheRapy: From spike lavender to Siberian fir to balsam copaiba, AroMed’s Lauren Andrews expounds upon the essential oils that assist in pain management. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. coMMunity MinDFulness: A 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. Fitness boot caMp: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. 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. pilates With MaRy Regele: Fitness fanatics drop in to fine-tune their flexibility, posture and core strength. River Arts, Morrisville, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

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poRt oF MontRéal touR: Transportation enthusiasts experience international freight movement firsthand, following goods on their path from Canada through United States Customs. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 8:15 a.m.-9 p.m. $89 includes lunch and reception; preregister; limited space. Info, marketing@anderinger.com.

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DRuM class: Percussion players make rhythmic music in an African-inspired lesson with Ismael Bangoura. Red Cedar School, Bristol, 6-7:15 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802. Jazz ResiDency With bRuce sKlaR & JeReMy hill: The local keyboardist and upright bass player serve up syncopated rhythms at a weekly gig. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 496-8994.

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naMi VeRMont FaMily-to-FaMily class: The National Alliance on Mental Illness builds understanding between individuals struggling with psychological health and their loved ones. Call for details. Various locations statewide, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-639-6480, ext. 102.

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buRlington Rugby: New and veteran players train to compete in the fall season. Bring cleats, a mouth guard and water. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

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peace pleDge ceReMony: Serbian peace activist Srdja Popovic delivers the rousing keynote speech “Blueprint for Revolution.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2205. uniVeRsity oF VeRMont peteRsen lectuRe, paRt 2: Amazonian archaeology scholar Eduardo Neves takes to the podium at the second installment of the lecture series honoring archaeologist Jim Petersen. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 479-1928.

ManDaRin chinese class: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

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VeRMont libeRtaRian paRty toWn caucus FoR south buRlington: South Burlington voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year elect officers and discuss local issues. Shaw’s, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 373-3984.

FReD WiseMan: The researcher discusses the Seeds of Renewal Project, an extensive effort to recover ancient Abenaki crops, seeds and indigenous culinary practices. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, joyce@intervale.org.

pReschool stoRy tiMe: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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VeRMont libeRtaRian paRty toWn caucus FoR JeRicho: Jericho voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year elect officers and discuss local issues. Jericho Town Hall, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3193.

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plainFielD pReschool stoRy tiMe: Little ones ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504.

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baRaK aDé soleil: The performance artist delivers a keynote lecture to kick off the Clifford Symposium. A reception follows. See calendar spotlight. Robison Hall, Mahoney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

colchesteR lego club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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‘as you liKe it’: Rosalind and Orlando face the trials and triumphs of love in Shakespeare’s romantic comedy staged by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-100. Info, 229-0492.

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National Theatre Live: A broadcast production of George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem follows two fiscally irresponsible men on a quest to marry for money. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1624. Info, 748-2600. ‘The Question’: The Green Candle Theater Company presents a wordplay by John Milton Oliver that digs deep into life’s negotiations, both simple and complex. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 863-5966. ‘Run for Your Wife’: A London cabbie confronts complications as he attempts to get away with having two spouses in this knee-slapper by Ray Cooney. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $17.50-35. Info, 498-3755.

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Building Vermont’s Moral Economy: A community conversation addresses the lack of economic equity in the Green Mountain State. Middlebury St. Stephen’s on the Green Episcopal Church, 8-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 310-4625. Danville Congregational Church, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-4625.

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Intervale Center Tour: A pastoral stroll highlights innovative programs and a rich agricultural history. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 660-0440, ext. 113.

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Burlington Bike Party: ‘Farmland’: Costumed riders spin their wheels on a themed monthly ride through the Queen City. Personal lights required. Meet at the northeast corner of the park at the start time. Burlington City Hall Park, 7:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, burlbikeparty@gmail. com. 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.

Scottish Country Dancing: See WED.23.

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Vermont Science Teachers of the Year Awards Ceremony: The Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering honors Patricia Preseault and Brian Slopey for their excellence as educators. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, winkler@middlebury.edu.

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Foodways Fridays: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular farm and museum admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. Killington Restaurant Week: See WED.23. Richmond Farmers Market: An open-air marketplace connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778. ‘ShakesBEER’: Raise your glass at a preshow gala for Lost Nation Theater’s production of As You Like It. Live music and gourmet eats round out the fun. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $60-100 includes party and performance. Info, 229-0492.

Source to Sea Cleanup: Volunteers roam the Connecticut River to find h e F SU and properly dispose of refuse. YO RR ES EA RT Northwoods Stewardship Center, East L IS T U O C C A B A R E T’ | Truck Stop: Mobile kitchens dish Charleston, 9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, out mouthwatering fare and local libations. 723-6551, ext. 304. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and ‘Under One Sky: Ending Poverty, drink. Info, 540-0406. Inequality & Climate Change’: Speakers focus on ways the public can participate in the ONE health & fitness Campaign, Bono’s organization aimed at ending Community Hatha Yoga: Students move at poverty and preventable disease. Amphitheater, their own pace in a gentle, reflective practice. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6. 309-0606. Info, 683-4918. | ‘T

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Ecstatic Dance Vermont: A movement session with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspires joy, transformation and divine connections. Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010.

Five Corners Farmers Market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers and food producers share the fruits of their labor. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249.

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Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Foxtrot: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.

‘Chocolate, It’s What’s for Dinner’: Chef Sarah Langan and chocolatier Eric Lampman prove that the cacao-based confection isn’t just for dessert during a gourmet meal with chocolate in every dish. South End Kitchen at Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $65-80. Info, 864-0505.

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Oral Storytelling Workshop: Wordsmiths join Burlington Writers Workshop members in a “Moth”-style exploration of telling tales aloud. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 383-8104.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: An eclectic repertoire of cutting-edge choreography comes alive with a combination of athleticism and grace. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-50. Info, 603-646-2422.

Bellows Falls Farmers Market: Grass-fed beef meets bicycle-powered smoothies at a foodie fair overflowing with veggies, cheeses, prepared eats and live music. Canal Street, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, bellowsfallsmarket@ gmail.com.

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Neil Shepard: Poetry pundits sit in for stanzas from Hominid Up. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1340.

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Evening Book Discussion: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence inspires conversation among readers. Essex Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

Maggie’s Adult Fiber Friday: Veteran knitter Maggie Loftus facilitates an informal gathering of crafters. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6maggie2@myfairpoint.net.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’40s Musical’: Oberon, owner of King’s Ice Cream Parlor is jealous of Tatiana’s success as proprietor of the Fairy Dust Diner in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy set in post-World War II Indiana. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 8 p.m. $15-25. Info, 253-3961.

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‘Peter and John’: Jay Craven directed the Nantucket-based 2015 movie about two brothers who must reevaluate their relationship as love and money come into play. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 3 & 7 p.m. $5-12. Info, 357-4616.

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‘Curtains’: A musical-theater-loving detective must crack the case when an untalented actress is slain during her opening night curtain call in this murder-mystery spoof. Hyde Park Opera House, 7-9:45 p.m. $12-18. Info, 888-4507.

Clifford Symposium: See THU.24, 9 a.m.

‘August: Osage County’: Repressed truths and unsettling secrets come to light when a midwestern patriarch goes missing in a Castleton University Department of Theater Arts production. Casella Theater, Castleton University, 7 p.m. $7-12. Info, 468-1119.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Fashion’s Night Burlington: Style mavens walk the red carpet, then score deals from area boutiques at a sartorial celebration complete with live music and special cocktails at participating restaurants. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5384. Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Meet at the steps 10 minutes before start time. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

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Oktoberfest Vermont: A Bavarian-themed festival comes complete with 40 brewers, local eats and live music by the Jolly Kopperschmidts. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 5-9:30 p.m. $35 includes a glass, 15 beer tasting tickets and one food voucher. Info, oktoberfestvermont.com.

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ITVFest: See THU.24.

Laughter Yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. Recovery Community Yoga: See WED.23.

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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: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics. Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. Magic: The Gathering: Players engage in epic duels in this card-based role-playing game. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Musical Story Time: Melody makers of all ages read and rock out with books, songs and instruments. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. Read to Clara: A friendly therapy dog is the perfect companion for little lit lovers. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 223-4665.

Story Time: Nicole entertains tots with stories, songs, crafts and parachute play. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers up to age 5 strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Asleep at the Wheel: The nine-time Grammy Award-winning ensemble aims to revive American roots music. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $27-32. Info, 476-8188. Bluegrass Gospel Project: Stunning vocals and acoustic instrumentation inform an eclectic mix of folk, pop and bluegrass. Proceeds benefit the United Church of Christ’s mission work. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 728-6464. Catamount Bluegrass Jam: Alan Epstein and his trio are the featured performers at an evening chock-full of traditional tunes. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. Crazy Hearse: The Middlebury rockers continue the Fall Music Series with a motley mix of punk, country and psychedelic sounds. Second Half open. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 10 p.m. $5 includes half-price café admission; cash bar. Info, 388-4841. Fall Hoedown: An outdoor bash boasts vendors, food, camping and a lineup of local music stars including Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, Seth Yacovone and others. Willow Crossing Farm, Johnson, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. $40-50; free for kids under 12. Info, 734-1129. Greg Brown: The singer-songwriter solidifies his legendary status with a folk-inspired concert showcasing his baritone voice. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $11-38. Info, 656-4455. O’hAnleigh: Irish American strains soar at a community concert. Vergennes Opera House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6737. Paul Asbell: The guitar virtuoso who has recorded with the likes of Muddy Waters, Bobby McFerrin and Howlin’ Wolf plays to support the Meeting House on the Green Preservation Project. Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 827-6626. Rani Arbo & Greg Ryan: The dynamic duo inspires toe tapping with bluegrass tunes performed on fiddle and guitar. Maple Corner Community Center, Calais, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10; $25 per family. Info, 229-5290. Russian Duo: Eastern European folk music, gypsy melodies and more ring out courtesy of the balalaika and piano. Essex Community Church, N.Y., 7 p.m. $10; free for kids. Info, 518-962-2688. Takács Quartet: Four individual talents join forces for a string performance of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-50. Info, 603-646-2422. Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour: A program featuring Scandinavian miniatures and student poetry charms classical connoisseurs. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7:30 p.m. $10-29. Info, 863-5966.

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Fall Migration Bird Walks: Avian enthusiasts explore local hot spots for songbird species. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. $10; free for kids and members. Info, 229-6206.

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‘As You Like It’: See THU.24, 8 p.m. ‘August: Osage County’: See THU.24. ‘Curtains’: See THU.24. ‘The Drawer Boy’: Truth and fiction collide when a young actor from the big city mines two aging farmers for stories about rural life in this Parish Players production. Eclipse Grange Theater, Thetford, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 785-4344. Janice Perry: ‘Naked at the Met’: The legendary performance artist tells of her literal and figurative fall from grace, touching on gender, sexuality and an aging body. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966.

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The Daily Grind: The Unmentionables comedy troupe spins audience interviews about unusual jobs into a sidesplitting improvised play. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 863-6713.

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Roaring Twenties Speakeasy Dance: Quickfooted participants don their deco duds and get down to live music by the Bohemian Blues Quartet. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382. Scottish Country Dancing: See WED.23.

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Watersheds United Vermont Cleanup Event: Eco-conscious volunteers band together to beautify the banks of the Green Mountain State. Email for details. Various Putney locations, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, emacalaster@svcable.net. Houghton Park, St. Albans City, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 355-0694.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.23, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Williston, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Drive 4 Ur Community: Locals cruise in new cars with no pressure to buy. Proceeds benefit the opera house. Enosburg Opera House, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 933-6171.

Bristol Harvest Festival: Artisans display their wares at this seasonal shindig featuring bandstand music, an apple pie contest and a farmers market. Bristol Town Green, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951.

Burke Fall Foliage Festival: Changing leaves give locals reason to celebrate autumn with a parade, a craft show, horse-drawn wagon rides, kids’ activities and live music by Tritium Well. East Burke Village, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 626-4124. Champlain Mini Maker Faire: A DIY mindset attracts tech-savvy tinkerers, who check out innovative art, science and engineering creations. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $8-22; free for kids 10 and under. Info, 985-8686. Forest Festival Weekend: History, science and art complement wagon rides, woodworking and forester-led hikes at this family-friendly fest. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 4573368, ext. 22. Oktoberfest Vermont: See FRI.25. Old-Fashioned Harvest Market: Fall is in full swing at two-day community fair featuring food, crafts, kids’ activities, live music and a parade. United Church of Underhill, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 899-1722.

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Hirschfield International Film Series: ‘Life Itself’: This 2014 documentary points the camera at renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ITVFest: See THU.24. ‘PlantPure Nation’: A farm tour leads to a screening of the 2015 film weighing health and food. Sunday’s showing features a live video Q&A with T. Colin Campbell, coauthor of The China Study. Farm tour, 2 p.m.; screening, 3 p.m. SHO Farm Vermont, Huntington, 2 p.m. $10-20. Info, 434-7798. ‘Wild’: Based on true events, this 2014 drama stars Reese Witherspoon as a woman who hikes 1,100 miles following a personal tragedy. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Barre Farmers Market: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172. Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor booths centered on local eats. Parking lot, Anthony’s Diner, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. Cheese Factory Celebration: The once fire-damaged facade that now houses multiple food businesses plays host to a ceremony, tours, music, dancing and food on the lawn. The Cheese Factory, Hinesburg, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2281. Chocolate Tasting: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. Hard Cider Tastings: Imbibers tip back crisp samples of the limited release Honey Plum and Hopped Native beverages. Champlain Orchards, Shoreham, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 897-2777. Killington Restaurant Week: See WED.23. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.23. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070. Newport Farmers Market: See WED.23.

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Danby Old Cemetery Tour: History hounds hop on a hay wagon to view early settlers’ graves in the Staples, Maple Grove, Otis and Read cemeteries. Smokey House Center, Danby, 1 p.m. Free. Info, hogden@vermontel.net.

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Wonderpaws Festival & Paw Parade: Woof! Pup- and kid-friendly activities forge connections between community members and man’s best friend. Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum, Rutland, registration, 9 a.m.; event, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $15-20 per dog. Info, 282-2678.

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Rummage Sale Bliss: Bargain hunters scoop up take-home treasures. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2827.

Vermont Book Award Ceremony Gala Dinner: The Ballet | CO UR Vermont Book Award winner is revealed Fall Equinox Contra Dance: Folks in at a celebration of literature complete with clean-soled shoes celebrate the change of seareadings, music and distinguished guests. Alumni sons with traditional steps. Tracy Hall, Norwich, Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 5 beginner session, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $4-8; p.m. $100. Info, 828-8613. free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, chip.hedler@gmail.com. fairs & festivals sp

Vermont Fine Furniture & Woodworking Festival: Handcrafted pieces reflect local artisans’ skills at this annual event featuring crafting and agricultural activities, wagon rides and scores of unique products. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular museum admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3; free for park activities. Info, 747-7900.

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Creative Writing Workshop: See WED.23, 10:30 a.m.

Barak adé Soleil: The dancer, a disabled artist of color, delivers a performance informed by race, disability and the body as part of the Clifford Symposium. See calendar spotlight. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 802-443-3168.

UVM Historic Tour: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Ira Allen statue, University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 656-8673.

Pittsford Harvest Fair & Craft Show: Artisans offer handmade items alongside pumpkins and homegrown veggies at this pastoral party. Pittsford Village Green, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 483-9972.

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Burlington Book Festival: Lit lovers celebrate the written word with three days of workshops, panels and special events. Notable authors — including Vanessa Blakeslee, Harry Bliss and Tina Escaja — give readings throughout the Queen City. See burlingtonbookfestival.com for details. Various Burlington locations, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3328.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: See FRI.25.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: See FRI.25.

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Prescription Drug Take-Back Day: Local law enforcement facilitates the safe, confidential disposal of prescription drugs as part of a nationwide event. See deadiversion.usdoj.gov for details. Various locations statewide, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-882-9539.

‘The Surrealist Cabaret’: The Royal Frog Ballet presents a whimsical collection of stories, dance, installation pieces and roving characters celebrating the season in a bucolic setting. Clark Commons, Barnard, 5 p.m. $9-18; free for babes in arms. Info, theroyalfrogballet@gmail.com.

‘Wild and Woolly!: Animals in Vermont History’: Speakers cover Vermont’s agricultural past, including beekeeping and livestock breeding, at the Vermont Historical Society Annual Meeting and Fall Conference. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $25-30; preregister. Info, 479-8503.

Political Potato Pancake & Leaf Peeping: Guest puppet shows, cantastorias and music culminate in an autumnal ceremony, a feast and a politically charged performance titled Fire. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, festivities and feast, 4 p.m.; performance, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031.

‘Run for Your Wife’: See THU.24.

PlayCon 2015: The Vermont Playwrights Circle raises the curtain on its first-ever conference for theater lovers, featuring workshops, panel discussions and an open mic session for new works. St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. $50-55. Info, 229-0112.

Olate Dogs Rescue Tour 2015: The canine winners of Season 7 of “America’s Got Talent” perform theatrical tricks alongside trainers Richard and Nicholas Olate. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 7 p.m. $20-45. Info, 760-4634.

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Ladies’ Rally: Start your engines! Drivers hit the road for a scenic cruise through Addison County. Vergennes Green, 9 a.m. $50-250 includes lunch; preregister. Info, 877-6737.

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Women’s Circle: Those who identify as women gather for readings, discussion and activities. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 302.

Independent Community Meeting Place: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

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Vermont Business Roundtable Executive Leadership Series: Three community members respond to Marilyn H. Tam’s talk on “Diversity: How to Reap Vermont’s Rich Harvest of Culture, Creativity and Community” following a networking breakfast. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 8:30-10 a.m. $140$1,200. Info, 865-0410.

Vermont Compassion Centers: Folks get information about the Vermont law allowing for legal medical marijuana access. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

Green Mountain Iron Dog Challenge: Canine handlers and their four-legged companions compete in a 1.5-mile obstacle course that simulates real-life situations faced by police K-9 teams. See irondogvt.weebly.com for details. Camp Dudley, Camp Kiniya, Colchester, 8 a.m. $25-60; preregister; free for spectators. Info, k9tazor@gmail.com.

Rush Holt: In “Advancing Science,” the former congressman speaks on policy at the University of Vermont. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, winkler@middlebury.edu.

Peace & Justice Center Volunteer Orientation: An overview of the center’s history and mission offers insight into the role of the retail store and the organization’s larger goals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

Rebecca R. Noel: A potluck dinner gives way to “The Perilous Boyhood of J. Edward Wright,” a talk on a Vermont minister’s pre-Civil War youth. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 223-7861.

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Education Enrichment for Everyone: Fall Series: Robert Resnik hits all the right notes in “Klezmer Music.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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Northwest Farmers Market: Locavores stock up on produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. Norwich Farmers Market: Farmers and artisans offer meats, maple syrup and produce alongside baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Rutland County Farmers Market: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Souper Supper: Take-home handcrafted bowls hold nourishment from area restaurants at a fundraiser for the Randolph Area Food Shelf. Diners are encouraged to bring nonperishable food donations. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 6 p.m. $25. Info, 276-3535.

Time Travels Through Nature: A Guided Walk: All ages are welcome to lace up appropriate outdoor shoes and discover a farm, a mill and an inn through a hike and scavenger hunt. Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7221.

Swanton Farmers Market: Shoppers get their share of farm-fresh produce, meats and breads. Village Green Park, Swanton, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 868-7200.

Weekend Artworks: Potential Picassos explore different artists and creative techniques with themed activities. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 1-3 p.m. $10; free for members. Info, 775-0356.

Waitsfield Farmers Market: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734.

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Step Into Action Recovery Walk: Supporters make strides for the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County. A rally, lunch and keynote speakers follow. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, registration, 9:30 a.m.; event, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $10. Info, 861-0332. Vermont Heart Walk: Aimed at promoting physical activity and heart-healthy living, this one- or three-mile ramble is fun for the whole family. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 878-7700.

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Archaeology Day: From real artifacts to modified archaeological digs, hands-on activities help kiddos discover clues to the past. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $11-14; free for kids under 2. Info, 649-2200. Fairy House Festival: Visitors follow a forest path sprinkled with small structures made of acorn caps, soft moss, birchbark and pine cones, then craft their own nature-inspired dwellings. The Nature Museum at Grafton, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $412; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 843-2111. Hands-On Glassblowing Projects & Classes: Suncatcher: Aspiring artisans ages 7 and up choose natural and nautical designs to create colorful window hangings. Orwell Glass workshop, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $15-20; preregister for a time slot. Info, 475-2022.

Fall Volunteer Work Day: From trail signs to autumn gardening to maintenance, volunteers pitch in to prepare the museum for the change of season. Sandwiches are provided. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167. Hike for Hunger: Walkers limber up with yoga, then make strides to raise funds and awareness for Hunger Free Vermont. Live bluegrass and wood-fired pizza follow. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, registration, 9:30 a.m.; breakfast and yoga, 10 a.m.; hike, 10:30 a.m. $25; free for kids under 7. Info, 865-0255, ext. 103. The Magic of Bird Migration: A live-action role-playing card game imitates the yearly backand-forth of songbirds, raptors and waddlers. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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The Beethoven Project: Soovin Kim and fellow chamber musicians investigate the German composer’s late quartets through a discussion and performance in a two-part series. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $26-30 for part 1; $36-40 for part 2. Info, 863-5966.

Choose Your Own Adventure Foliage Hikes: Adventure seekers confer with park interpreters to map out routes meeting individual needs. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: See WED.23, 8-9 a.m.

The Alan Doyle Band: Celebration Series: The founding member of Great Big Sea steps out on his own with selections from So Let’s Go. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $18-29. Info, 476-8188.

Bird Monitoring Walk: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

Lap for the Library: Lit lovers step out to support the library. A mild walk gives way to treats and books. Bradford Elementary School, 10 a.m. Donations. Info, 222-9275.

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‘The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God’: See WED.23, 2 & 8 p.m.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour: See FRI.25, Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-29. Info, 863-5966.

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Northern Vermont Scrabble Club: Wordsmiths use lettered tiles to spell out winning combinations. Panera Bread, Barre, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1801.

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Saturday Drop-In Story Time: A weekly selection of songs and narratives engages all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Saturday Story Time: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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Read to Hank the Therapy Dog: Tykes cozy up for a story session with a retriever. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279.

Wine Tasting: Samples of Piedmont Nebbiolo burst with flavor at a casual sipping session complete with cheese and bread. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider: Families with children ages 3 and up learn about eight-legged friends and spin their very own webs. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 482-2878.

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Catamount Coffeehouse: The Rosa Ramblers demonstrate their combined 80 years of folk-music experience at a concert where singing along is encouraged. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. Dar Williams: Compared to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, the idiosyncratic songwriter serenades with folky strains. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 518-523-2512. Evolfo: Concertgoers can’t help but dance to brass-infused gypsy funk music at a kickoff concert for Kingdom County Productions’ new season. St. Johnsbury Welcome Center, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. Fall Hoedown: See FRI.25. Generations of Harmony: North Country Chordsmen: The Upper Valley’s 40-man barbershop chorus works its vocal chords for new and classic songs such as “If You Knew Susie” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 603-448-0400. The Mountain Says No: The local band rocks the opera house with openers Black Rabbit. Enosburg Opera House, 7 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 933-6171. Susan Werner: Sassy wit and classic midwestern charm thread through songs that slide between folk, jazz and pop stylings. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20-45. Info, 760-4634. University of Vermont Fallfest: Students and locals ages 16 and up get down to hot hiphop by the Ying Yang Twins, Nitty Scott MC and Vee Tha Rula. UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 656-2076.

Mushrooms Demystified: Fungi fans learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Owl Prowl & Night Ghost Hike: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19thcentury settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. Sturdy shoes and water are required. Meet at the History Hike parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. Whiteface Mountain Hike: Nature lovers tackle a difficult excursion along the Long Trail, gaining 4,000 feet in elevation over 11 miles. Contact trip leader for details. The Long Trail, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 899-9982. Work Your Way to Enlightenment: Zen seekers labor side by side clearing trails, chopping wood, painting and refreshing the spiritual center. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 633-4136.

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Intro to Excel: Columns, rows, cells, formulas and data entry become second nature at a tutorial on electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217. Reading French Vital Records: Francophiles get ready to glean more family tree facts by learning French-language keywords and formulas for finding names. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.

VCAM’s Digital Editing Certification: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor’s permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

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The Color Run 5K: Runners wearing white at the starting line are plastered in blue, yellow, orange and pink pigments over a 3.1-mile course in the “happiest 5K on the planet.” Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $45-49.50. Info, 383-6933. Green Mountain Derby Dames: The hard-hitting ladies of the Black Ice Brawlers battle Boston’s Train Wrecks in a flat-track showdown. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. $610. Info, info@gmderbydames.com. Ski & Board Swap: New and lightly used gear changes hands in preparation for winter sports. South Burlington High School, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7000. Tour de Farms: Cyclists get a taste of the region as they pedal 27- and 37-mile routes, sampling a wide range of locally produced foods along the way. Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 37-mile ride, 8:30 a.m.; 27-mile ride, 9:30 a.m. $30-55. Info, 382-0401.

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‘As You Like It’: See THU.24, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘August: Osage County’: See THU.24. ‘Curtains’: See THU.24. ‘The Drawer Boy’: See FRI.25. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’40s Musical’: See THU.24, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘The Question’: See THU.24. ‘Run for Your Wife’: See THU.24. ‘The Surrealist Cabaret’: See FRI.25.

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Burlington Book Festival: See FRI.25, 10:30 a.m.-midnight. EXTEMPO: Local raconteurs tell first-person true stories before a live audience. A bonfire follows. The Blue Barn, Calais, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 223-0184. ‘Lusk & Lathem: A Celebration of Local Poets’: Live jazz music, readings and refreshments fuel the launch of two new books of poetry by Daniel Lusk and Alexis Lathem. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. Storytelling Potluck: Folks from all walks of life share true tales of travel and wildlife encounters. Bring a dish or drink to share. The Story Barn, Johnson, 4:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 644-8885.

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Power Through Paris Workshop: Passionate people convene to discuss bold and ambitious mobilization inspired by the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference. 350Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 444-0350.

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Drawing Made Easy: Anyone Can Draw This Way: Throw on your beret, grab your brush and learn an accessible four-step approach to drawing from Pet TV’s Mary Crowley. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon, 1-2:15 p.m. Free. Info, 247-4295.

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Central Vermont Humane Society Yard Sale: Animal lovers discover secondhand treasures at this fundraiser for the nonprofit. Montpelier Elks Club, early birds, 7:45 p.m.; general public, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; $5 for early birds. Info, 476-3811.

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Chittenden County historiCal soCiety Meeting: Speaker Hubie Norton reconstructs the history of the Drury Brickyard, which operated in Essex from 1867-1970. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2 p.m. Free. Info, cchsvt@gmail.com. CoMMunity Mindfulness with the Center for Mindful learning: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0820. oK: Like-minded individuals plan for the future, contemplate the past and connect with the present. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

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verMont puMpKin ChuCKin’ festival: Soaring squash reach new heights thanks to handmade trebuchets at this benefit for the Lamoille Family Center. Kids’ activities, live music and a chili cook-off round out the day. Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $5; free for kids 4 and under. Info, 603-630-4800.

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itvfest: See THu.24. ‘plantpure nation’: See SAT.26, 2 p.m.

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agriCola farM dinner CluB: Members lick their lips over legs of Icelandic lamb. Agricola Farm, Panton, 5 p.m. $70 includes membership; BYOB; preregister. Info, alerellini@gmail.com.

BalKan folK danCing: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2-5 p.m. $6; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020.

Bradford 250 panCaKe BreaKfast: Friends and neighbors rub elbows over all-you-caneat flapjacks. Bradford Masonic Hall, 7-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 222-4014.

‘nutCraCKer’ auditions: Dancers ages 4 through 18 try out for the Albany Berkshire Ballet’s November production of Tchaikovsky’s beloved holiday classic. Call for details. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 10 a.m. $15. Info, 253-5151.

dedalus wine dinner: Natural wines complement a three-course dinner at a night of communal eating and drinking. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $45. Info, 540-0406.

sCottish Country danCing: See WED.23.

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40th anniversary open house: Saddle up! Equine enthusiasts of all experience levels meet horses and instructors, nosh on hamburgers and hot dogs, and enjoy demonstrations and door prizes. East Hill Farm, Plainfield, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9258. Better l8 than never Car show: Gearheads check out sweet rides at this benefit for Camp TaKum-Ta, hosted by the Snake Mountain Cruisers. Bristol Recreation Field, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $20 per vehicle; free for spectators. Info, 388-7951. Birth tree projeCt: Williston parents who registered for this year’s project pick up their trees, meet fellow families and enjoy live music by Ellie Tetrick. Gardener’s Supply Company, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

fairs & festivals

19th-Century apple & Cheese harvest festival: Heirloom apples and local fromage flavor a day of period games, live music and cider pressing. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $5-10 includes lunch. Info, 765-4288. ChaMplain Mini MaKer faire: See SAT.26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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oKtoBerfest verMont: harvest day: Parents and kids alike get into the spirit of the season with games, crafts, live entertainment, and locally made food and beverages. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations. Info, oktoberfestvermont.com.

verMont fine furniture & woodworKing festival: See SAT.26.

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garden harvest party & potluCK: Foodies fête fall with shared dishes, kids’ activities, garden and trail tours, and music by Woodbury Strings. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. $5 or a dish to share. Info, 861-4769. gloBal Burlington international dinner: It’s a small world after all when diners dig into an evening of Bosnian cuisine and culture. North End Studio A, Burlington, 5 p.m. $15-18. Info, 863-6713.

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Killington restaurant weeK: See WED.23. pie fest: Bakers battle for the honor of best fruit-and-crust concoction and a cash prize. After the judging come live music, tractor hayrides and pay-by-the-pound apple picking. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister to compete. Info, 864-7528. south Burlington farMers MarKet: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. university Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 207-266-8766.

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williston Chowder Challenge: Ladle it up! Area restaurants compete for prizes at this comfort-food fest featuring tasty samples and raffles. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-3 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 6. Info, 373-4326. winoosKi farMers MarKet: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic fare, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

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nia with suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

stretCh & sip yoga: Yogis at all levels hit the mat for vinyasa flow before quenching their thirst with a pint or flight of Switchback suds. Personal mat required. Tap Room, Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister; limited space. Info, 651-4114. sunday sangha: CoMMunity ashtanga yoga: Students stretch and breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 1011:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 224-6183. SuN.27

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harvestival: Adventurous attendees roll up their pant legs for the Grape Stomp Competition, which gives way to live music, snack samples, face painting, and cork-themed arts and crafts. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 1-5 p.m. Free; $25 per grape-stomp team; preregister for competition. Info, 223-1151.

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food preservation party: From kefir and kombucha to sourdough and sauerkraut, locavores join the Swap Sisters for an afternoon of workshops, tasting, trading and a potluck meal. Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, 1-5 p.m. Donations. Info, swapsisters@gmail.com.

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ChristMas revels KiCK-off Ceilidh: Great Scot! Traditional fare, music and dancing commence the holiday season. East Thetford Pavilion, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 866-556-3083.

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type-in: Fans of vintage manual typewriters get keyed up at a gathering complete with creative writing and speed-typing contests. See calendar spotlight. Maglianero Café, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, vermontvintagetypewriter@gmail.com.

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Hands-On Glassblowing Projects & Classes: Suncatcher: See SAT.26. ‘Ivory is for Elephants’ Kids’ T-Shirt Making Workshop: Kids and families show support for elephant conservation by personalizing garments. A documentary film and refreshments follow. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m. $6; preregister; limited space. Info, 425-2700. ‘Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School’: A spunky first grader navigates the joys and challenges of childhood in a musical adaptation of the beloved book series. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $13-23. Info, 603-646-2422.

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Conversational Spanish Group: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com. Dimanches French Conversation: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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Choral Celebration of the Earth: Members of the All Souls Interfaith Choir and the South County Chorus lend their voices to a program of uplifting music. Appropriate outdoor attire recommended. Breeding Barn, Shelburne Farms, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-3819. Diana Fanning: The elegant pianist tickles the ivories at a recital of classical works. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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The Beethoven Project: See SAT.26, 2 p.m.

Historic Hook & Hastings Organ Concert: Jennifer Bower traverses the keys with music by baroque composers Froberger, Bach and Assandra. A reception follows. Congregational Church, Vergennes, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2435.

Eric Paslay: The contemporary country singer shows off his songwriting skills with a night of chart-topping hits. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $25.75. Info, 775-0903. Fall Hoedown: See FRI.25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Michele Fay Band: Led by the accomplished vocalist, the local group performs originals and Americana tunes. United Church of Underhill, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1722. Paradiso & Rasamayi: Didjeridoo, singing bowls and voice work create mystic soundscapes, unlocking levels of meditation, healing and connection to the higher self. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6 p.m. $25. Info, onlinesoundhealing.com.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour: See FRI.25, Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 4 p.m. $6-29. Info, 748-2600. Vermont Youth Orchestra Fall Concert: Conductor Jeffrey Domoto leads area musicians in works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Gerald Finzi. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $12-17. Info, 863-5966.

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Choose Your Own Adventure Foliage Hikes: See SAT.26, 2 p.m.

VT Sun Run: Athletes enjoy pastoral courses as they take on 5K, 10K and 13.1-mile routes. Branbury State Park, Salisbury, registration, 8:459:45 a.m.; runs, 10 a.m. $25-50. Info, 388-6888. Women’s Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while connecting passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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Hod Symes: Facts flow in the presentation “The Gateway to Wells River, 1770-1853.” Wells River Congregational Church, 7 p.m. Free. Info, newburyhistorical@gmail.com.

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‘As You Like It’: See THU.24, 2 p.m. ‘August: Osage County’: See THU.24, 2 p.m. ‘Curtains’: See THU.24, 2-4:45 p.m.

‘The Drawer Boy’: See FRI.25, 3 p.m.

‘Run for Your Wife’: See DR S IN OF K| THU.24. ‘Eyes on the Land’ Taste & Tour: SY SO E T U PE R SUPPER | C OUR A classic fall afternoon is in store for ‘The Surrealist Cabaret’: See participants, who dig into food produced FRI.25. on-site and join a walking tour with orchardist Bill Suhr. Champlain Orchards, Shoreham, 3-5 p.m. words $10-15; preregister. Info, 262-1222. Burlington Book Festival: See FRI.25, 1-5 p.m. &

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Techung To: The world-music ensemble unveils selections from its new album, Good Luck, Good Life. Joining the band with traditional Tibetan songs is the Adirondack Youth Orchestra. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2 p.m. $10; free for students. Info, 518-564-4009.

Piknic Electronik: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik.com for details. Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montréal, 3 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 514-904-1247.

Symphony New Hampshire: A Benefit for Good Neighbor Health Clinic: The chamber music ensemble opens its season with a concert saluting American composers Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 4 p.m. $12-45. Info, 603-448-0400.

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‘The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God’: See WED.23, 2 p.m.

Island Vines 10K: Runners feel the burn on a 6.2-mile course, then treat themselves to mouthwatering wines from the vineyard. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 10 a.m.-noon. $40. Info, 863-8412.

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Pure Country Band: Music lovers start with food, then dance the afternoon away to toe-tapping tunes. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., meal, noon; band, 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-643-2309.

5K Fun Run: Runners and walkers of all ability levels stretch their legs to support Lamoille County community service projects. Cambridge Elementary School, Jeffersonville, 9:30 a.m. $1020. Info, 793-5509.

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

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Progressive Organ Concert: A traveling concert highlights pipe organs at three different churches beginning at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church and stopping at North Universalist Chapel Society and St. James Episcopal Church. Our Lady of the Snows, Woodstock, 4-6 p.m. $10. Info, 457-3981.

Work Your Way to Enlightenment: See SAT.26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Discovery Sundays: Inquisitive minds have fun with hands-on explorations of science, technology, engineering and math. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, noon-4 p.m. $11.50-13.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5001, ext. 228.

welcomes boaters for an easy outing. Contact trip leader for details. Shelburne Pond, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, ted@ted-albers.net.

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The Piazzolla Project: Four musicians band together to explore the sounds of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7:30 p.m. $10-18. Info, 382-9222.

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Hike Into History: Prepared with appropriate clothing, history hounds retrace the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers on a tour led by Mount Independence Coalition president Steve Zeoli. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 1-3 p.m. $5; free for kids 15 and under. Info, 948-2000. Historic Silver Lake Hike & Talk: Researcher Bill Powers and archaeologist Dave Lacy lead a 1.5-mile narrated excursion to the shore. Bring water and lunch and meet at the Silver Lake trailhead on Route 53, south of Branbury State Park. Branbury State Park, Salisbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-1928. Junior Ranger Wrap-Up: Young agents of the land team up with volunteers to remove invasive exotic honeysuckle shrubs in the War of the Weeds. Meet at the Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. The Magic of Bird Migration: See SAT.26, 10 a.m.

Rockin’ the Little River II: Tour of Waterbury Dam: Folks meet at the top of Vermont’s largest hand-built earthen dam for a guided walk along the crest, complete with mountain views. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11:30 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. Shelburne Pond Paddle: The largest undeveloped body of water in the Champlain Valley

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Jane Austen in Vermont: Susan Wolfson harks back to the author’s early career in the presentation “Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s First Novel, Before She Was ‘Jane Austen.’” Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 343-2294. Jane C. Beck: The author offers excerpts of Daisy Turner’s Kin: An African American Saga. A book signing follows. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3-5 p.m. $2 or regular admission, $8-10. Info, 877-3406. Verve in Verse: Poetry Readings: Karin Gottshall and Diane Swan, masters of rhyme and meter, share their printed words aloud. Old West Church, Calais, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-6613.

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Planning Business Building Blocks: An overview of rules, regulations and resources rounds out the workshop “Starting Your Own Business.” Capstone Community Action, Barre, 5-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 477-5176.

comedy

Craig Ferguson: The comedian and former late-night television host doles out joke after joke on his New Deal Tour. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $39.75. Info, 775-0903.

crafts

60-Minute Experience: Ropework: Nautical nuts ages 8 and up twist and tie strips of twine to make a Turk’s head keychain. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 2-3 p.m. $15-25 includes museum admission; preregister. Info, 475-2022.

dance

Salsa Mondays: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572. Scottish Country Dancing: See WED.23. West African Dance With Live Drumming: See WED.23.

etc.

American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.23, VFW Post 792, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Newsbank Conference Center, Chester, noon-5 p.m. Fayston Elementary School, Waistfield, 2-7 p.m. Tech Help With Clif: See WED.23.

film

Movie Matinee: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: In honor of Banned Books Week, fans of the classic novel watch the 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. Essex Free Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

games

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.

health & fitness

Medicine Buddha Puja: A healing practice helps attendees address illness on personal and interpersonal levels. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136. Nia With Suzy: See SUN.27, 7 p.m. Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: See WED.23, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pilates with Mary Regele: See THU.24. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.23. Recovery Community Yoga: See WED.23. Zumba: See WED.23.

kids

After-School Games: Youngsters in grades 3 and up challenge each other to tabletop matches. Games and snacks are provided. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Art Mondays: Michelle teaches tots about modes of expression through the ages in an exploration of Archaeology Month. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Cruisers’ & Crawlers’ Play & Stay Story Time: Babies and toddlers up to age 2 engage in books, songs and social time with blocks, bubbles and parachute play. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Drop-In Storytime: Reading, rhyming and crafting engage creative kiddos. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. Green Mountain Book Award Readers’ Club: Lit lovers in grades 9 through 12 chat about Winger by Andrew Smith. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Hands-On Glassblowing Projects & Classes: Suncatcher: See SAT.26. Preschool Story Time: See THU.24. Robin’s Nest Nature Playgroup: Naturalistled activities through fields and forests engage little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

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StorieS With Megan: Budding bookworms ages 2 through 5 open their ears for exciting tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music

Mad river Chorale open rehearSal: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its upcoming concert featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi, Francis Poulenc, Edward Elgar, Randall Thompson and Irving Berlin. Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2048. MeliSSa etheridge: The Grammy Awardwinning singer-songwriter strums selections from her new album, This is M.E., plus plenty of fan favorites. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $52.50-81.75. Info, 863-5966. verMont SyMphony orCheStra: Made in verMont StateWide tour: See FRI.25, Casella Theater, Castleton University, 7 p.m. $10-29. Info, 863-5966.

sports

piCkup piCkleball: Athletes of all ages get their hands on paddles and plastic balls to play the game that combines elements of tennis, badminton and Ping-Pong. Bombardier Park East, Milton, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4922.

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dance

interMediate & advanCed WeSt CoaSt SWing: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com. learn Modern Country-WeStern Square danCe: Let’s boogie! Neophytes get at feel for new steps at an introductory class. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2012. SCottiSh Country danCing: See WED.23. SWing danCing: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

environment

‘paSSive houSe revolution’: A screening of the 2013 environmental documentary gives way to a panel discussion with energy efficiency experts and the chance to network with professionals in the field. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 302-540-2467.

words

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book group: Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk inspires a dialogue among readers. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

aMeriCan red CroSS blood drive: See WED.23, Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 1-6 p.m.

intenSive Writing WorkShop: Intermediate to experienced wordsmiths flesh out long-form projects with Jay Dubberly. Otter Creek Room, Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

tea & forMal gardenS tour: See THU.24.

film

‘arSeniC and old laCe’: A drama critic played by Carey Grant learns that his spinster aunts have homicidal tendencies in this 1944 comedy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

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‘roger WaterS the Wall’: Music lovers catch a concert film of the biggest worldwide tour by any solo artist in history. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5610.

feaSt together or feaSt to go: See FRI.25. tueSday volunteer nightS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

food & drink

burlington CoCktail Walk: Imbibers mingle with makers of local spirits and bitters over Vermont-inspired libations and light fare. Various downtown Burlington locations, 5:15-7:30 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 922-7346. old north end farMerS Market: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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‘the Saint in palM SpringS’: George Sanders makes his final appearance as the eponymous criminal-turned-detective in this 1941 mystery movie. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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knightS of the MyStiC Movie Club: Cinema hounds screen campy flicks at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

paid faMily & MediCal leave foruM: A discussion outlines the mechanics of developing a state-run Temporary Disability and Caregiver Insurance Program to fund employee time off. Back Inn Time, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, ashley@mainstreetalliance.org.

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poetry SepteMber WorkShop SerieS: a Study of a poet: Burlington Writers Workshop members read between the lines to examine a rhyme-and-meter master’s work. 22 Church St., Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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beginner WeSt CoaSt SWing & blueS fuSion danCing: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

eduCation enriChMent of everyone fall SerieS: Music lovers take notes during Toni Hill’s “Opera for Everyone.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

phoenix bookS rutland grand opening: Mayor Chris Louras and other community leaders speak as the shop opens its doors to the public. Patrons partake of coffee, cider and doughnuts. Phoenix Books Rutland, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 855-8078.

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ballrooM danCe ClaSSeS: No partners or experience are required at swing, waltz and tango lessons. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, swing, 6-7 p.m.; waltz and tango, 7-8 p.m. $14 for walk-ins. Info, 225-8699.

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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.

health & fitness

dancinG ThrouGh PreGnancy: Mothers-tobe prepare for birth in an open class based on the Nia technique. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $13. Info, 522-3691. how To Gain & mainTain your naTural immuniTy: Cedar Wood Natural Health Center’s Kelley Muraro shares methods for strengthening the body’s defense mechanisms. Milton Public Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 893-4644.

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midday communiTy mindfulness: Nina La Rosa leads an afternoon practice aimed at achieving peace and well-being. Exquisite Mind Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1 p.m. Donations. Info, nina@ninalarosa.com. ouTdoor BooT camP: Hop to it! Folks get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Rain location: Otter Valley North Campus Gym. MarineEngine.com, Brandon, 5:306:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

kids

Upcoming SHORT COURSES

Toddler sTory Time: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

language

inTermediaTe/advanced enGlish lanGuaGe class: Language learners sharpen communication skills. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1311. ‘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 all levels engage in dialogue en français. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0550.

montréal

‘The advenTures of a BlacK Girl in search of God’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

music

shaPe noTe sinG: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-6972.

sports

arTs in educaTion: rennie harris rhaw: A group of young dancers performs a program of hip-hop footwork focused on youth and urban culture. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 10-11 a.m. $5; preregister. Info, 457-3981.

BurlinGTon ruGBy: See THU.24.

talks

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Game day & sToryTellinG fun: A goofy improvisational game prompts kids to craft a narrative. Excerpts from Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories follow. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. hands-on GlassBlowinG ProjecTs & classes: suncaTcher: See SAT.26. music & movemenT sTory Time: See WED.23. Preschool music: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 264-5660. Preschool sTory hour: farm animals: Kids ages 3 through 6 learn about barnyard critters with themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. read To a doG: Youngsters share stories with lovable pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.

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PhilliP j. usher: The New York University professor puts global conflict into perspective in “Nation vs. Planet: The Scale of the Wars of Religion.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3196.

Tech Tuesdays: Tinkerers tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Teen liBrary commiTTee: Bookworms in grades 9 through 12 share ideas for library programs and book selections over pizza. Essex Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

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The BooK of moron: Robert Dubac’s solo show combines theater and comedy to lampoon religion, politics and media. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

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adulT BooK discussion GrouP: Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking sparks a dialogue. Copies are available for checkout. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. anson monTGomery: The progeny of series founder R.A. Montgomery signs copies of #185: Choose Your Own Adventure: Escape From the Haunted Warehouse. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-1441. Tim hayes: Equine enthusiasts saddle up for a discussion on the author’s book Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal. Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5533. wriTinG creaTive nonficTion: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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on-farm worKshoP: fall feed invenTory & land imProvemenTs: A certified organic farm plays host to a discussion of meeting feed stock needs before the winter season. Wood-fired pizza satiates listeners. McKnight Farm, East Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $20 includes lunch. Info, 434-4122.

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outDoor BaCkyarD Boot CaMp: See WED.23.

Developing our network: Emerging leaders in development and land use meet and mingle with other young professionals. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, shainley@whiteandburke.com.

pusH-ups in tHe park: See WED.23.

community

ZuMBa: See WED.23.

Men’s group: A supportive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. peer support CirCle: See WED.23. uniteD way survey results: Friends and neighbors over 60 discuss ways in which the United Way could better serve Chittenden County based on the outcome of a recent questionnaire. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

dance

afrolatin party: See WED.23. Drop-in Hip-Hop DanCe: See WED.23. sCottisH Country DanCing: See WED.23. west afriCan DanCe witH live DruMMing: See WED.23.

environment

verMont’s Bats & wHite-nose synDroMe: Nature lovers hang around for a seminar on the Green Mountain State’s nocturnal species and the disease that threatens their existence. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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aMeriCan reD Cross BlooD Drive: See WED.23, Hartford High School, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Green Mountain Power, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Community College of Vermont, Morrisville, noon-6 p.m. Blessed Sacrament Church, Stowe, noon-5:30 p.m. Covenant Community Church, Essex, 1-6 p.m. teCH Help witH Clif: See WED.23.

r.i.p.p.e.D.: See WED.23. weDnesDay nigHt sounD MeDitation: See WED.23.

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B.r.a.v.e.: A reading, a craft and a snack follow Miss Orange County Collegiate’s anti-bullying presentation. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. CHess CluB: See WED.23. DCf Book CluB: See WED.23. ‘laMB CHop loves tHe Military’: Mallory Lewis and her adorable sock puppet delight audience members of all ages with charm and humor. Proceeds benefit Rhythm of the Rein’s veterans program. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 7:30 p.m. $5-10; free for active and retired military. Info, 426-3781.

language

Beginner englisH language Class: See WED.23.

newport farMers Market: See WED.23.

wine tasting: Oenophiles tip back samples of Oregon pinot noir complemented by bread and cheese. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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insigHt MeDitation: See WED.23.

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autHor talk: Helen Hosley leads an armchair hike through the American Southwest in “Grand Canyon.” Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. CHris BoHJalian: The New York Times bestselling author presents passages from Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands to celebrate the opening of Phoenix Books Rutland. Green Mountain Power Energy Innovation Center, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 855-8078. Creative writing worksHop: See WED.23. tiM Hayes: See TUE.29, South Burlington Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 652-7080. m

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‘tHe aDventures of a BlaCk girl in searCH of goD’: See WED.23, 1 p.m.

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‘states of graCe’: A reverend and physician must come to terms with her new reality following a life-altering accident in this 2014 documentary. A Q&A with director Helen S. Cohen follows. Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 864-4742.

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MusiC & MoveMent story tiMe: See WED.23. reaD to Clara: See FRI.25.

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story tiMe & playgroup: See WED.23.

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ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Calligraphy; Culinary Arts: One night handson classes where you eat well!! Dim Sum, Chicken Tikka, Indian Veggie, Vietnamese Pho, Hot Tamale, Thai, Middle Eastern, Hors D’oeuvres, Chocolate, Argentinian, Pizza, Pasta, Ravioli, Pastries, Chocolate Sponge with Ganache, Italian Cookies, Decorated Cookies. Yum! Full descriptions online. Senior discounts. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. ACCESS COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Computer & Internet Basics, Cloud Control, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, Picassa and iCloud, Web Album, iSync: Pads/iPods/iPhones, Twitter Essentials, Google Sketchup, MS Word Basics and More, Smartphone Use, Google Smarts, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, personalized lessons. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discounts. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. ACCESS CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Pottery: 8 choices, Bowl Turning, Woodworking, Welding, Carving a Spoon, Hems, Rug Hooking, Punch Needle 2, Bangle Bracelet, Wool Dyeing, 3-Bag Sewing, Pillows, Needle Felting, Card Making, Embroidery, Quilting, Cake Decorating, Knitting. Full descriptions online or call 482-7194. Senior discounts. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. ACCESS EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Beekeeping, Birding x 3, SAT Bootcamp, Memoir Writing, Flash Fiction, Talks on: Lake

Ice, VT Architecture, Donner Party, Etsy Shop, Paris Under Occupation, Wildlife Rehab. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge: 2 levels, Mah Jongg, Flower Arranging, Growing Mushrooms, Sugaring, Tree ID, Scrub Sense, Backyard Astronomy, Motorcycle Awareness, Shoulder Massage, Cat Behavior, Reiki, Herbals, Herbal Delights, Herbal Facial. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discounts. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. ACCESS LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: French: 5 Levels, Spanish: 3 Levels, Italian for Travelers, Beginning Mandarin: 2 Levels, German 1 & 2, Russian in a Nutshell! Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discounts. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, DSLR Foundations, Digital Action Photography, Picasa Workshop, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters, InDesign. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. ACCESS BODY AND MIND CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Core Strength with Caroline Perkins: Tue. and Thu., Weight Training, Weight Bearing and Resistance Training, Ski and Snowboard Fitness, Tai Chi, Yoga: 3 choices, Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius, Hip-Hop, Jazzercise, Voice-Overs, Guitar: 2 Levels, Banjo, String Band, Ukulele, Songwriting, Musical Improv, Mindful Meditation, Dreams, SelfHypnosis, Emotions/Health, and Juggling. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adults: Mon. p.m. Oils, Beaded Jewelry, Wed. a.m. Intermediate/Advanced Painting, Wed. Night Wheel, a.m. Clay Hand Building, Thu. a.m. Oils, Thu. Drawing, Thu. Mixed-Media Pastel, Chinese Calligraphy. Children: Clay on the Wheel & Hand Building, Art of the Selfie, Adventures in Art, Art of the World, Sat. a.m. Art, Holiday Gifts. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Rte. 7, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@ aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. ADOBE LIGHTROOM: Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class 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. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 29-Dec. 10, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $260/person; $234/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS: Are you ready to take the leap and sell your work, but are stymied by the ins and outs of business? Arts business consultant Laura Hale will demystify it all and discuss different ways of incorporating your business, setting up a tax account, basic accounting and registering your business name. Mon., Oct. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. CLAY: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Mixed Level Wheel supports students across a range of skill and experience levels. Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing, trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Class includes your first bag of clay and 30 open studio hours per week to practice. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 1-Nov. 19, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: This class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s

wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, creating functional pieces like mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience needed. Includes first bag of clay and 30 open studio hours per week to practice. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 1-Nov. 19, 12:30-3 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington. DIY 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. Thu., Oct. 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/ person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. DROP-IN: ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel throwing with clay. This is a great introduction to our studio for those who don’t have time for an eight-week class. No registration necessary, but space is limited. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Fri., Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $12/participant; $11/BCA members; + $5/piece to be fired & glazed. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP-IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Explore BCA’s clay studio while hanging out with the family. Try the pottery wheel, and create amazing clay sculptures in the hand-building room, while our staff gives demonstrations. There is a $5 additional fee per clay piece to be kept, fired and glazed. No registration necessary, but access to wheels is limited. All ages. Weekly on Fri., Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/BCA members; + $5/piece to be fired & glazed. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING: This drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local artist Julia Berberan. Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 28-Dec. 14, 6:308:30 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. DROP-IN: PRESCHOOL ART: This popular drop-in program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment. Participants will work with kid-friendly materials like homemade play dough and finger paint and will explore sculpture, drawings and crafts through their own projects, or collaboratively. Parents must accompany children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Ages 6 months to 5 years. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 1-Dec. 17, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members. Location:

BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. ETSY: SELLING YOUR WORK: Are you ready to take the leap and open a store on Etsy, the largest handmade online market in the world? Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing items, filling sold orders and marketing tricks. Mon., Oct. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. ILLUSTRATION AND CARTOONING: Learn a variety of illustration techniques! Whatever your interest, children’s books, news stories, comics, sci-fi or political blogs, there’s a technique for you. Using traditional materials, students will be encouraged to draw the human figure, likenesses, animals, landscapes, interiors and more. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 30-Nov. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $168/person; $151.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. PAINTING: OIL: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. Using our direct observational skills, we’ll work on still life and using photographs as reference material we’ll explore landscape. This supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique. Class includes basic materials. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 29-Nov. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. PHOTO: MIXED-LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level in this eightweek class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film-processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes

a darkroom membership for outside-of-class printing and processing. Prerequisite: Black and White Darkroom or equivalent experience. Thu., Oct. 15-Dec. 10, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $295/ person; $265.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTO: NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Explore Sand Bar State Park and the Lake Champlain Islands with your camera during the height of foliage season! Students will create beautiful nature photographs with professional photographer and nature enthusiast Dan Lovell. All camera types and levels of knowledge are welcome to participate. No experience required. Thu., Oct. 15 & 22, 6-9 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $180/person; $162/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PRINTMAKING: This introductory class will show you a whole range of printing techniques, introducing students to the studio’s equipment and techniques such as block printing with linoleum, collograph and drypoint etching. No experience necessary. Class includes all basic supplies and equipment and 25 open studio hours per week to practice. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 29-Nov. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, Burlington. YOUTH: DIY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES: Students will create one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes that will blow away those store-bought costumes. Cut, sew and craft your way to the best Halloween ever! Basic materials are provided; please bring two ideas and any material or old clothes to help create your costume. Ages 6-12. Fri., Oct. 9, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $87.50/person; $78.75/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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YOUTH: POTTERY WHEEL: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make cups, bowls and more in our BCA clay studio. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages 6-12. Sat., Oct. 24, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. JEWELRY: Learn the basics of creating metal jewelry. Techniques covered will include sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more, so that students can create at least two completed pieces. Class includes copper and brass and all basic tools. Silver can be purchased separately. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 29-Nov. 3, 6:308:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington. JEWELRY: STONE SETTING: Want to know how to make different kinds of settings for your gemstones? This class will cover a variety of stone setting techniques for your cabochons and faceted stones. Basic metalsmithing skills are strongly recommended. Limited supply of stones will be available for purchase. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 1-Nov. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington.

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. Thu., Oct. 1 & 8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. PRINT: SILKSCREEN: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Students will learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 1-Nov. 19, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, Burlington.

business CORE BUSINESS SEMINARS: Do you own, or are thinking of starting, your own business? We offer classes geared toward small business owners in Vermont. Local experts and business owners share their knowledge to help you grow your business. Class sizes are small, our space is friendly. Check our website for a complete schedule. Weekdays, noon-1:30 p.m., every 4th Fri. of the mo., 8:30-9:30 a.m. Location: Core Business Seminars, 156 College St., 2nd floor, Burlington. Info: 373-7952,

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craft BEGINNING GLASSBLOWING: This class offers students the opportunity to experience glassblowing at the furnace. First we will cover shop safety and tool basics. After that we will pull a flower, make a paperweight and create a vessel or two. All instruction is one-on-one. Sep. 20 & 27 & Oct. 17, 24 & 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $200/8-hour class. Location: Seasholtz Glass Design, 590 E. Main St., Hyde Park. Info: Matt Seasholtz, 6352731, mattseasholtz@yahoo.com, windsedgestudio.com.

LEARN TO KNIT I AT NIDO: In this three-part class, learn the basics of knitting while making your very first hat! Begin with swatching a gauge and casting on. Learn to knit and purl in the round on a circular needle. Complete by switching to double pointed needles to decrease and bind off. Wed., Nov. 4, 11 & 18, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $88/3 2-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 8810068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt. com. WREATH MAKING WITH NECTAR & ROOT: Join Nido Fabric and Yarn and Nectar & Root for an evening of holiday wreath making! Local floral design and wedding styling company Nectar & Root will guide students to create a seasonal greens wreath with natural inspirations and local materials from the backyards of Vermont. Sun., Dec.

6, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $75/1 3-hour workshop; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com. LEARN TO SEW SERIES: Take our two-part Learn to Sew series beginning Mon., Oct. 19, with Learn to Sew 1. Learn machine basics and fundamental sewing techniques. Follow up with our Learn to Sew II class, Mon., Oct. 26, to continue building your sewing repertoire. Leave with finished projects and inspiration. Register today! Mon., Oct. 19 & 26, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $96/2 3-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

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BEGINNER CLAY: Instructor: Rik Rolla. A great course for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze. After you craft 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. Weekly on Tue., Oct. 13Dec. 1, 10 a.m-noon. Cost: $260/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

FOREST TO FURNITURE: Instructors: Chris Ramos and Marshall Webb. Build a rustic table or bench out of a slab of wood from a tree grown on the farm! Explore the source of your table, the Shelburne Farms forest, then select your piece of wood, and craft it into a table or bench. Prior woodworking experience is helpful but not necessary. Fri.-Sun., Oct. 9-11. Fri., 2-7 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $475/person; $450/members of Shelburne Farms or Shelburne Craft School; incl. instruction, materials, dinner on Fri. & Sat. & lunch on Sat. & Sun. Location: Shelburne Craft School & Shelburne Farms, Shelburne. Info: theshelburne craftschool.org.

dance WEST AFRICAN DANCE CLASSES: Come dance to the amazing live music of West Africa while learning the traditional dances of Mali. Join Solo Sana as he teaches you the movements of the dances and rhythms within the cultural context. Classes are accompanied by live drumming from master and community artists. All levels welcome! Weekly on Mon., 5:30-7 p.m., & Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $15/1.5-hour class. Location: Mon.: Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington; Tue.: Capital City Grange, Montpelier. Info: Solo Sana, 355-9776, souleymanesana@hotmail.com, solosana.com. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St.,

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DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime; weather permitting)/North End Studios, 0 College St./294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

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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.

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PHOTO: B&W DARKROOM: Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black and white film with your manual 35mm or medium format 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. No experience necessary. Weekly on Mon., Oct. 19-Dec. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $240/ person; $216/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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come directly to the first class!. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington, & Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO IN MONTPELIER: Kids and Parents’ Taiko: Thu., 4:305:20 p.m., starting Nov. 5. $60/ person; $114/pair. 5-week class. Montpelier Taiko: Thu., 5:30-6:50 p.m., starting Nov. 5 $90/5 weeks; $22/walk-in. Register online or come directly to the first class. Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

JUNGIAN BIBLE STUDY WORKSHOP I: This course introduces students to a Jungian approach to handling the Bible, including such topics as allegorical and metaphorical thinking, nonliteral interpretation, analysis of key Biblical archetypes, and how we are living the parables that Jesus presented to his listeners. No prior familiarity with the Bible, Judaism or Christianity is necessary. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. QUICK FIX TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING STRESS: This workshop gives participants new ways to look at and deal with stress. It includes a variety of exercises participants can take away from the workshop for daily practice. The program includes a slideshow, exercises and discussion. Led by Susan Ackerman,

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TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 3 (no class Nov. 24). $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners: Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m., starting Oct. 5, Nov. 2 & Nov. 30. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents’ Class: Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Oct. 5 & Nov. 2. $60/child; $105/parent-child duo. Five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Register online or come directly to the first class!. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

astrologer and teacher. Oct. 10, 9-11:30 a.m. Cost: $35/person. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. TOUCH DRAWING: Participants will learn the art of Touch Drawing, a form of printmaking on tissue paper using fingertips. Touch drawings allow us to move beyond our conditioned patterns, permitting subconscious images to emerge. Participants will create, and work into, a series of touch drawings. No artistic experience is necessary. All materials included. Preregistration required. Led by Jennie Kristel. Mon., Oct. 19 & 26 & Nov. 2, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $95/person. Sliding scale avail. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com. TRANSITIONS: WISDOM JOURNEY: Release the tension of life’s busy-ness. Join us for this eight-session workshop of creatively exploring our life transitions. In keeping with shamanic and mystical traditions, we call up our inner and collective wisdom and journey through our changing landscape by using our dreams, art making, movement, music and the written word. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 21-Nov. 23, 6:30-8:45 p.m. (no class Oct. 5 & 12). Cost: $195/ person; preregistration required; incl. all materials. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., suite 9, Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 862-5302, topazweis@gmx.net.

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CONTEMPORARY DANCE INTENSIVES: Led by a different guest artist each month, hailing from the teaching staff at Bennington and Middlebury Colleges, these intensives are 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. Using improvisational structures, the aim will

be to strengthen our capacity to be fully awake, aware and able to respond to our constantly changing “world,” be it the studio, the stage, a specific site or our community. The guest artist for the October session is Polly Motley. Seasoned teen/adult dancers. 7 Sun., Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13, Jan. 17, Feb. 21, Mar. 20 & Apr. 17, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $30/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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PASTEL WORKSHOP: EXPRESSIVE AUTUMN LANDSCAPES W/ ROBERT CARSTEN: Focus is on ways to loosen up, create beautiful color, strong design and expressive mark making in your pastel paintings. All levels welcome. Sun., Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $75/members; $100/nonmembers. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com.

language OH LA LA! ADULT FRENCH CLASSES: Fab French classes in beautiful atelier. Small, fun, relaxed and rigorous at once! Beginner, Advanced Beginner & Intermediate level. Using multiple modalities, increase French knowledge beaucoup! Sign up soon; classes fill! Experienced instructor Madame Maggie will meet you where you are and help you get next level while having fun. Fall session starts week of Oct 5. Mon., 5:30-7 p.m.: Beginner; Tue., 5-6:30 p.m.: Intermediate; Tue., 6:45-8:15 p.m.: Advanced Beginner. Cost: $160/7 weeks of 1.5-hour classes. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. FRENCH CLASSES, PRE-KADULT: Accents, School of Foreign Language is gearing up for its second year with a lot of fun, interactive classes for pre-K to adult. Currently enrolling for French classes! It’s new, its exciting, it’s innovative! We focus on speaking! We create a

comfortable learning environment for our students! Free-trial class! Sep.-Dec., during the school day, after school, Sat. & evenings. Cost: $250/12-week sessions: pre-K classes, 45 min; ages 6-18, 1 hour; adult classes, 1.5 hours. Group rates avail. Location: Accents, School of Foreign Language, 1881 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Info: Brenda Beaudette-Kaim, 860-468-5373, accentssofl@gmail.com, asofl. 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 College. Classes begin on Wed., Oct. 7 (Level 1) and Tue., Oct. 6 (Level 2), 6:30-8 p.m. 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. This ad is supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Pl., Colchester. Info: jasvlanguage@ gmail.com.

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meditation PEMA CHODRON: SMILE AT FEAR: World-renowned Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron teaches us how fear keeps us trapped in patterns of stress and discontentment. She offers a vision for moving beyond fear to discover our innate bravery, trust, and joy. This course will include a video stream of Pema’s talks, meditation and discussion. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 24-Oct. 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: ekanard@gmail.com, burlington.shambhala.org/ program-details/?id=235811.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third 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.

spirituality INTRO TO SHAMANISM: Learn how to journey into the spirit realms, where you will work with powerfully compassionate and intelligent spirit guides, teachers and healers. The session will include an introduction to the practice of shamanic divination and an overview of shamanic healing. Meet your power animal in a core shamanic introduction. Sun., Oct. 11, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $95/8.5-hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Woodbury Healing Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury. Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

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Theory & Guiding Principles; Push Hands Partner Practice; and Mindfulness Meditation. All-level weekly classes, Wed. (ongoing), 5:30-7 p.m. $60/ mo. 1st class free. 1st Saturday Seminar Series, Sat., Oct. 3, Nov. 7 and Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $35. Tai Chi for Health, Oct. 8-Dec. 17, Thu., 10-11 a.m. $135. Location: McClure Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 453-3690, whitecloudarts@gmail.com, whitecloudarts.org. BEGINNER TAI CHI IN BURLINGTON: At Long River Tai Chi, we practice Professor Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course lasts for one year and will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student of Wolfe Lowenthal, founder of Long River and a senior instructor at LR in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Wed., Oct. 7, 8-9 a.m. Cost: $65/mo. (registration open through Oct. 28). Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longriver taichi.org, longrivertaichi.org. MINDFUL BREATH TAI CHI: New beginners’ yang-style tai chi classes. Two 6-week sessions: Starting Thu., Sep. 10-Oct. 22, or Sat., Sep. 12-Oct. 24. No classes on Oct. 1 or 3. $96. Taught by Janet Makaris. Location: Ascension Lutheran Church, 95 Allen Rd., S. Burlington. Heading south on Rte. 7, turn left a block before Pauline’s Restaurant. 1/4 mile on your right. Info: 7355465, mindfulbreathtaichi.com. 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

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Find YourSelF in SVAROOPA Yoga, an uncoMMon Yoga: Svaroopa Yoga Weekend Workshop, the Delight of an Open spine and Quiet Mind, with leading Teacher addie alex, Nov. 7-8, Barrett Hall, south strafford, Vt., $295. early registration: $245 paid by Oct. 10. Weekly classes taught by annie Ross csYT, e-RYT 500 (sun., 3 p.m. and Wed., 6:45 p.m.) and three half-day workshops (sat., 1:30- 4:30 p.m., sep. 19, Oct. 17 and Nov. 21, $60) are held at the center for Integrative Health, 45 lyme Rd., suite 200, Hanover, N.H. Svaroopa means “the bliss of your own being,” or your own true form. This style is deceptively easy and amazingly powerful, as it releases the

core muscles wrapped around your spine, effecting changes in your body, mind and emotions. Find your strength, inside and outside, with this spinal magic. Location: South Strafford, Vt., &, Hanover, N.H. Info: Annie Ross, CSYT, E-RYT 500, 649-3544, annie@truepathyoga.today. 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; $130/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St.,

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f you google “the internet,” the first result that pops up is not a Wikipedia entry for the humanityaltering global communications network through which you may be reading this article. Somewhat incredibly, it’s a Wiki entry for a soul band called the Internet. To borrow a notion from John Lennon, the Internet are bigger than the internet. OK, that’s a bit of an overstatement. Still, that the Los Angeles-based band currently tops online search engines is a testament to just how much recognition the group has garnered for its recently released third record, Ego Death. (If you don’t believe us, just ask Jeeves.) The Internet (the band) was founded in 2011 by DJ, vocalist and producer Syd Bennett (aka Syd tha Kyd) and producer Matthew Martin (aka Matt Martians), both of whom were members of the famed alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future. Essentially working as a duo, the Internet released a pair of full-length albums, Purple Naked Ladies (2011) and Feel Good (2013), to modest

acclaim. But Ego Death, recorded with a full band and released this summer — and featuring guest turns from Janelle Monáe and Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator, among others — has proven to be a game changer. Ego Death is centered on Bennett’s smooth, emotive delivery and sly, lusty wordplay. She sings with an easy, flowing cadence that somewhat masks the emotional turbulence and heat embedded in both her tone and her lyrics. As impressive as she is, what really makes the record uniquely compelling is the array of atmospheric sounds, beats and arrangements through which Bennett lithely winds her splendidly unconventional melodies. There’s simmering warmth in the jazz- and funk-minded deployment of luxurious keyboards, serpentine bass runs and snapping drums. It nods to the fluid 1990s fusion of hip-hop and soul by bands such as Soulquarians — and former member Erykah Badu’s Baduizm is an obvious and affectionately rendered influence. The strikingly creative

and artistically bold album is capturing attention from VIBE magazine to the New York Times. Seven Days spoke with Martians by phone ahead of the Internet’s show at Signal Kitchen in Burlington on Saturday, September 26. SEVEN DAYS: So you and Syd met on Myspace? MATT MARTIANS: Yeah. I was on Myspace maybe a year or two before Syd. But she got on and was looking for a producer and reached out to me looking for advice. And we kept in touch over the years. And then we ended up being in the same place and had some of the same friends. SD: Sticking with the internet angle for a moment, if you google “the internet,” you guys are the first result that comes up. But that’s a fairly recent development. Before you started to gain some notoriety, did you ever regret naming your band something so SEO-ambiguous?

MM: When we first named the band, Syd’s mom — she’s like my second mom — she’ll come to me about stuff that she doesn’t want to hurt Syd’s feelings about. She came to me and was like, “Hey, I don’t understand it.” But now people see it and they get it. It was a challenge we accepted, but it confused people at first, for sure. SD: You’ve explained the idea behind the name Ego Death, that it’s about setting aside personal egos to foster creative growth. But how do you actually quiet your ego to that degree? MM: Well, me and Syd are the leaders of the band, but everyone has an equal voice in the band. Everybody gets the same level of respect. In a lot of bands, the executive decisions are made by one or two people. But with our band, we just consider everybody’s feelings, and it works really well.

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On Tuesday, September 15, Honky Tonk Tuesday celebrated its 10th anniversary. The weekly Radio Bean residency hosted by songwriter, singer and allaround countrypolitan gentleman BrEtt HuGHES was a star-studded affair that featured ghosts of Honky Tonks past and present. These included LowELL tHompSoN, mArk SpENcEr, mikE GorDoN, mAriE cLAirE, BrEtt LANiEr, mArk rANSom, kELLY rAViN, cALEB ELDEr, JoE cLEArY and many, many more. In short, the hootenanny was a hoot, much as it’s been nearly every Tuesday night for a decade. But amid the evening’s boozy, celebratory air was an undercurrent of uncertainty bordering on melancholy. That’s because, during an HTT a couple of weeks prior, Hughes had reportedly hinted that he would be stepping down, possibly as soon as the 10th anniversary had passed. Unsurprisingly, the future of HTT was a hot topic in the crowd that night. In between classics by wAYLoN JENNiNGS,

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— disbelieving whispers abounded that the end could be near. Even Bean owner LEE ANDErSoN’s onstage toast felt as much like a eulogy as a salute. I wasn’t taking notes — I was there in a strictly celebratory capacity, as anyone who heard my annual butchering of a certain Buck owENS classic would attest. But Anderson’s gist was that creating an institution like Honky Tonky Tuesday is something unique and special. That the night has been successful and vibrant every week for a decade is a testament to Hughes — and to Burlington itself. We’re lucky, Anderson implied, to have had it. He’s right on all counts. But before we discuss that, a brief aside: Longtime readers might recall that I have a small personal connection to Honky Tonk Tuesday. Namely, it was my idea. However, my involvement was relatively minimal and extremely brief. Long story short: A few weeks after Hughes, my then-bandmate DAViD StockHAuSEN and I debuted HTT, I met a girl and promptly proceeded to drop off the face of the Earth — as one does when he's young, foolish and in love. From then on — roughly 500 Tuesday nights since — it’s been all Hughes, who deserves any and all credit for what the event has become. Speaking of which… Anderson was absolutely correct when he called HTT an institution. It’s also been one of the Bean’s most consistently profitable nights. In a side conversation at the anniversary party, Anderson told me that, because he could rely on fans filling up the coffee shop every week on what would normally be a dead night, he could take chances on other bands the rest of the week. It’s not a stretch to say that Honky Tonk Tuesday helped keep Radio Bean afloat during some lean and uncertain years, in addition to fortifying the café’s eclectic vibe. But the legacy of HTT runs deeper. The musicians who have logged time at the residency over the years number in the hundreds. There have been numerous iterations of the core HTT band during that time. And the connections made on that stage have

extended well beyond the tiny shop on North Winooski Avenue. For instance, pHiSH’s Mike Gordon commandeered one generation of Honky Tonkers for his country side-project rAmBLE DoVE and took them to Bonnaroo. Kelly Ravin and the Crowther boys met at a Honky Tonk and soon after formed wAYLoN SpEED. These are but a few of many such examples. From a nonmusical perspective, I know of at least one couple that met at HTT and is now married. And I know a few others that hired versions of the band for their weddings. In Hughes’ hands, Honky Tonk Tuesday has been far more than just a weekly countrymusic jam session. It’s been a vital thread in the greater musical tapestry of Vermont. So is it really all coming to an end? Definitely maybe. In a recent email exchange, Hughes calls the decade of Honky Tonk an “amazing” run, saying it’s “(almost) always a blast.” But it’s sometimes something else, too. Namely, “a downright pain in the ass.” That’s no joke. Somewhat by design, HTT has always been a pretty loose gig. On the nights when people show up, it can be transcendent. But corraling three or four or six other musicians to come out to play late on a school night, for practically no pay, is like herding cats. It’s not hard to imagine that, some weeks, HTT is more hassle than it’s worth. Other nights, though… “I couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity to just start playing the first song and being thrilled and fascinated and humored and humbled by what happens then, week after week,” writes Hughes. “It’s one of the great joys of my life.” Hughes stops just short of saying that it’s over. For one thing, his longtime friend and frequent musical partner Mark Ransom is in town from Hawaii for a bit, so HTT will at least keep going while he’s around. After that, even Hughes isn’t quite sure. “I don’t really know what the hell I’m going to do at this point,” he writes. “Things are ‘evolving,’ always.”

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SD: That sounds like a refreshing atmosphere. MM: Yeah, man. It’s a lot less stress. And that just means you’re more open to ideas. Because you’re working with people that you care about, and you want them to be more creative, too. SD: out of curiosity, do you happen to listen to Sturgill Simpson? MM: No, I don’t. SD: He’s a country singer who released this record called Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. It’s like a psychedelic twist on traditional and outlaw country. Anyway, he has a song called “Just Let Go” that I think jives with the concept of Ego Death. The opening line is “Woke up today, decided to kill my ego.” MM: [laughs] That’s tight! I’ll have to check that out. Maybe he knows the answer to our album title. SD: You said in a recent interview with VIBE that on this record you guys have finally found your sound. What specifically made you feel that way? MM: I think it’s just part of growing as an artist and being able to listen to and recognize who you really are. You listen to artists like D’Angelo and Jamiroquai, you only get those sounds from those guys. Only those guys can get it. And we feel like we finally found a specific sound that’s us. We’re really comfortable with all that we’re doing,

SD: This was the first record you have made where Syd was single. How did that shape the writing process? MM: It really affected everything. For one thing, she had a lot more free time. But it was another perspective, too. The other albums were a lot about being in a relationship and the mistakes you make. But this one was kind of like looking at relationships and not being apologetic about it. It is what it is. Shit happens. So that’s kind of the energy of this album. It’s a little more direct, saying what we really think and not shying away from that. SD: It’s been interesting to see how the careers of everyone involved with odd Future have progressed, you two included. And it seems like your success, and that of Frank ocean and tyler, the creator, has actually raised odd Future’s profile even more than when the collective was really active. MM: The thing with Odd Future, a lot of people loved it and were fans of that sound, and people are interested in the path that Odd Future and the people who were in it are taking. I learned a lot being in Odd Future, especially how to run our band the right way. There were a lot of things we did right and a lot of things we did wrong. Odd Future was a good time, and it ran its course. But we’re the Internet, and that’s what we’re focused on now. SD: Last question: What’s the last great record you listened to? MM: The Unknown Mortal Orchestra. I’ve been bumping that a lot lately. m

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Last but not least, welcome back, SPIT vermont sAturDAYs > 7:00 pm JACK! The late, infamous local punk band is reuniting for a gig at the only bar in the state they have yet to be kicked watch live out of: Charlie-O’s World Famous @5:25 Weeknights on in Montpelier. The show is Friday, tV AnD online September 25, which, in a seemingly get more info or watch online at cruel twist of punk-rock fate, is the same vermont cam.org • retn.org night that the iconic-ish 1990s punk ch17.tv band the QUEERS play Club Metronome in Burlington with locals NOBODYS, LORD 9/22/15 SILKY and BE AGGRESSIVE. But there’s good16t-retnWEEKLY.indd 1 news! Because Friday is a dance party night at Metronome, the Queers show is on the early side, at 6:30 p.m. So, in theory, and provided you have a DD — looking at you, Spit Jack — you can probably make both shows, since music at Charlie-O’s starts at 10 p.m.

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front man and songwriter Chaz Bundick affectionately summons ghosts

of rock and roll past. He evokes classic Weezer, cautioning, “There is no one to

WED.23 burlington

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free. 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. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Def Ears, Cold River Candy (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: The Educator, 8:30 p.m., free. LizRd Women (slacker rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (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. Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

09.23.15-09.30.15 SEVEN DAYS

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Sam DuPont (indie folk), 5:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Tim Sullivan (folk), 6 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Django Soul-o, 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Tim Brick (country), 8 p.m., free.

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PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom JASPER'S TAVERN: Below Zero Blues Jam, 7 p.m., free. LE BELVEDERE: Fishhead Unplugged (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

destroy your sweater.” And he nods to Big Star with the line “rock and roll is here THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The Bombadils (chamber folk), 8 p.m., NA.

to stay.” TYM’s latest is both an homage and a bold step forward, cutting winsome

ZEN LOUNGE: Xenia Dunford Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. Miami Heat Wave DJ Showcase (house, EDM), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

Toro y Moi at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington on Wednesday,

MONKEY HOUSE: Fattie B & Craig Mitchell (soul, hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: McKenna Lee and the Microfixers (rock, country), 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Joe Gagnon (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Tod Pronto (country), 6 p.m., donation.

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SWEET MELISSA'S: BYOV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free. Dave Keller (blues, soul), 7:30 p.m., free.

burlington

BARRIO BAKERY & PIZZA BARRIO: Charles Corley (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers (rock, soul), 9:30 p.m., $7/10. 18+. THE DAILY PLANET: Brett Hughes (country), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. THE GRYPHON: Al Teodosio and Tom Frink (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. Disco Phantom (eclectic), 10:30 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Gordon Goldsmith (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Kelly Ravin (country), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Head for the Hills, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. James Harvey (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Rob Morse's Sound of Mind (jazz, funk), 9 p.m., free. Tangled Headphones (psychedelic garage rock), 11:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Squid Parade (rock), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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chittenden county

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

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

nostalgia with heavy doses of fearsome guitar riffage and hazy psychedelia. Catch

WHAMMY BAR: Paul Boffa & Michelle Rodriguez (folk), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Kick ’em Jenny (Americana), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS: Throttle Thursdays, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: DJ Blinie (dance party), 10 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Magic Dan & Fancy Music (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, Skinny Lister, Beans on Toast (folk), 7:30 p.m., $20/25. AA.

middlebury area

NAKED TURTLE: Ladies' Night with DJ Skippy, 10 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Anthony Santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: The Queers, Nobodys, Lord Silky, Be Aggressive (punk), 6:30 p.m., $12/15. Rush Hour with DJ Dakota & DJ Atak (top 40), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Friend Friday with Craig Mitchell (eclectic), 5 p.m., free. Silent Mind (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Bonjour Hi (house), 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Silver Bridget (folk), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Taka (vintage analog electronics), 11 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Polyrhythmics, Binger (funk, rock), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids' music), 11 a.m., free. Serena Jost (otherworldly cello rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Bow Thayer (modern mountain soul), 10 p.m., free. Violet Ultraviolet, Dangerbird (indie), 11:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Live Music, 4 p.m., free. Let's Be Leonard (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.

Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Turkuaz, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (funk), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ryan Ober & the Loose Ends, Lowell Thompson & Crown Pilot (rock, alt-country), 8:30 p.m., NA. ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 p.m., $5. Feel Good Friday with D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Particle, DrFameus (livetronica), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: About Time (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Disco Phantom & Friends (eclectic), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free.

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Burlington dance-pop outfit Rue Mevlana have been relatively quiet on the recording scene since releasing Synthetic Emotion in 2012. Save for some remixes, “The Rue Crew” — Nathan Jarvis, Marya Vallejos, Hannah Wall, Rebecca Wallace, Shelby Ferland and Allison Bannister — have largely left fans waiting. The wait is over. Earlier this month, the crew mounted a performance-art, cabaret-type show called Motley Rue — major props for that name, guys. The performance was set to songs from the band’s new 12-track album, Pop Corn. True to its name, Pop Corn sizzles and explodes with musical morsels. A patchwork of techno, disco, glam-pop and straight-up club music, Pop Corn is delicious ear candy for those who like their party tunes with a little less dubstep and a little more pop punch.

“Shooting Starlight” opens with crackling, glittering doses of synth. Delicate, sweet lyrics speak of “celestial feelings” between friends: “I close my eyes and jump through time / Just to find that you’re still mine / Bound with strings that can’t unwind / You’re my lifeline.” Next up is the peppy disco tune “Freak Out Friday.” The liberated, anthemic chorus is sure to get you in the TGIF spirit. Mischievous and cool, “That Girl Can Dance” plays like a late-night text conversation, with sassy, spoken-word lyrics set against a short, snappy beat. “Elemental Love” briefly slows the pace. The track weaves two surprisingly well-matched instruments, violins and steel drum. It’s a sugary, luxurious ditty. “Rush” turns a slightly darker corner. Sleepy, cooing vocals warn of speeding through life at the expense of living it: “We’re in a world of a thousand rushes / and until it’s the end of the world / I wonder what the rush is / it’s gonna happen fast.” The downturn is short-lived, as penultimate track “Secret Revolution” reintroduces head-bopping techno. True to Rue Mevlana form, much of the album draws from late 1970s and early ’80s glam-rock and pop influences.

Bowie fans will groove to the spacey struts and androgynous vocals in “Butta Cake” and “Hermpahroditus.” “We Rock Out 2 Queen” pays homage to one of the arenarock gods’ most iconic tunes with inspired chanting and this inarguable truth: “When it comes to looking fine / Mercury is master.” Yet contemporary voices also filter in. Daft Punk devotees will applaud the layered instrumentals, while lovers of female electro artists such as Marina and the Diamonds or Robyn will dig the leading-lady vocals. Rue Mevlana’s take on electro is synthheavy and sparkling, and their latest effort delivers on earlier foundations. Energetic, quirky and pulsing, Pop Corn is sure to liven up your fall music rotation. Pop Corn by Rue Mevlana is available at ruemevlana.bandcamp.com.

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One moment on Crickets, Coyotes & the Big Yellow Moon, the debut recording from Elmore’s Christine Malcolm, not only characterizes the entire record but helps explain Malcolm as a songwriter and artist. It comes on the album’s third cut, the well-titled “True Hearted Girl.” Malcolm coos a breathy melody while rippling banjo and arcing fiddle flirt playfully behind her, setting a familiar, rustic tone. It’s a rolling, pleasant number that doesn’t much distinguish itself from countless others in the Lucinda Williams school of alt-country songwriting. Until it does. The tune gradually builds in intensity, culminating in a lively fiddle solo that comes about where you’d expect it. But

yet just as genuine. Album centerpiece “Ancient I Love You” pairs frustrated, lovesick wordplay with impatient slideguitar licks. The gorgeous title track closes the 13-song record with pastoral imagery, its serenity matched by the reflective calm of engineer Colin McCaffrey’s arrangement. McCaffrey deserves credit for the record’s warm, glistening sheen. As a producer and engineer, as well as a versatile multi-instrumentalist, his contributions add significant depth and color throughout. The same could be said of the rest of album’s players, a who’s who of Vermont roots notables including Rudy Dauth, Russ Lawton, Miriam Bernardo, Jeremy Harple and Dave Keller. But a band is only as good as the songs it plays, and so, over and over again on her debut offering, Malcolm proves to be a genuine talent. Christine Malcolm celebrates her new record with a release show at the Waterville Town Hall on Sunday, September 27. Crickets, Coyotes & the Big Yellow Moon is available at christinemalcolm.com.

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then Malcolm throws a curveball, ducking into a daring bridge section that zigs when the traditional twang-inflected folk rock would zag. Over about 30 seconds, the song’s mood changes, delving into a deeper emotional space than the preceding earnestness could predict. As a ringing electric guitar leads back into a more conventional tack to close out the song, Malcolm’s turn is ultimately merely a detour. But it’s revealing. Malcolm, a mother and midwife, came to songwriting later in life. Among her acknowledged influences are Williams — both Lucinda and Hank — Bob Dylan, Townes van Zandt and other timehonored cornerstones of dusty Americana. For the most part, she wears her inspirations on her sleeve. But her mature, savvy distillation of influences results from a worldly, lived-in perspective. Armed with subtle confidence, Malcolm is emboldened to tweak conventions while staying true to her heart. Though she doesn’t break any molds, Malcolm finds creative ways to express herself within established parameters of folk, rock and pop. Opener “Lucky Me” is bright, catchy and heartfelt. “Emily’s Bridge” is moody and atmospheric,

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THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Intrepid travelers (jam), 9:30 p.m., free.

SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: The Suspects cD Release Party (rock), 10 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

middlebury area

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Squirrel's crackers (blues, country), 6 p.m., donation.

CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Spit Jack Reunion Show, the Pity Whores, GhostLicker (punk), 10 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: oak totem trio (jazz), 6 p.m., $3. DJ Stevie B (dance party), 10 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Bueno comedy Showvcase, 8:30 p.m., $6.

northeast kingdom

THE NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Jazzyaoke, 7:30 p.m., $5.

JASPER'S TAVERN: Raized on Radio (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Rob morse's Sound of mind (funk, jazz), 10 p.m., $5.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: Live music, 9:30 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. michelle Sarah Band (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $5.

outside vermont

WHAMMY BAR: Anachronist (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King me (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. The Better Days Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Flack Jacket (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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burlington

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Gina and Jeff (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Geeks N cheeks III: the Sugar Shakers Strike Back (nerdlesque), 8 p.m., $10/25. 18+. Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

outside vermont

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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THE GRYPHON: Joe capps amd Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Intrepid travelers (jam), 7 p.m., free. Flashback with Rob Douglas & Guests (house), 10 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ E major (trap), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: tom Banjo (old time), 8 p.m., free. Daniel ouellete (singer-songwriter), 10:30 p.m., free. taka (vintage analog electronics), 11 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3. THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: open mic, 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Eugene tyler Band (Americana), 7 p.m., free. magic Beans, the Hornitz (jam), 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Kids' music with Linda Bassick Album Release, 11 a.m., free. old Sky (country), 1 p.m., free. Austin Kopec (indie rock, blues), 6 p.m., free. Eric + Erica (indie), 7:30 p.m., free. The travelers (soul, jazz), 9 p.m., free. totally Submerged (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Brunch with the Xenia Dunford trio, noon, free. Bad Accent (world folk rock), 6:30 p.m., free. Randy Niles (folk, soul), 8:30 p.m., free. Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 10 p.m., free. Background orcs (immersive groove), 12:30 a.m., free. RED SQUARE: cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 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.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark open Improv Jam & Standup comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Ballroom Thieves, Darlingside, cricket Blue (indie folk), 8 p.m., $12/15. AA.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: INcA Hoots (rock), 9 p.m., free. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: King me (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Benoits (Vermonticana), 5 p.m., free. Nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Al n Pete (Celtic), 6 p.m., donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: David Langevin (solo piano), 5 p.m., free. Peter mayhew & Act of conscience (folk), 9 p.m., $5. WHAMMY BAR: Golden Novak Duo (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: open mic, 7:30 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Lesley Grant (country), 9 p.m., free.

mad river valley/waterbury THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.

PHANTOM: The Bombadils (chamber folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: conqueror Root (roots), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Bob Levinson Band (blues), 6 p.m., $3.

northeast kingdom

PARKER PIE CO.: The Bonnets, the mangroves, No U turns (rock, funk), 8 p.m., nA.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Bleeker & macDougal (folk ballads), 11 a.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): The Bombadils (chamber folk), 6 p.m., nA. SWEET MELISSA'S: Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

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THE STAGE: open mic, 5 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O'S: Standup comedy cage match, 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit club (open reading), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: motown mondays with DJs craig mitchell & Fattie B, 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Latin Sessions with mal maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Districts, Sun club (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: open mic comedy café, 8 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Kelly Ravin (country), 8 p.m., free. Mon.28

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FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Pizza Party: Iron Chic, Doom Service, Trophy Lungs, Sink or Swim (metal), 8:30 p.m., $10/12/15. 18+.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: open mic with andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Bob Gagnon (jazz), 5:30 p.m., free.

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

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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Drew angus & Sam Carlson (folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOGS PLACE: Golden novak Duo (country), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: open mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

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northeast kingdom LE BELVEDERE: Fishhead Unplugged (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

SWITCHBACK BREWING: music Wednesday in the Tap Room: Jason Lee! (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.

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Inside Story

Jeremy Lee MacKenzie talks art and incarceration

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Jeremy Lee MacKenzie

COURTESY OF JEREMY LEE MACKENZIE

How did you discover scrollwork? The first time I encountered wood scrollwork was in a prison woodshop when I was 17. An old man there showed me cutting. It’s kind of like the idea behind tattoos: You design everything beforehand and use your design like a stencil. Everything is designed like a great big maze, and then everything that’s not the maze is removed. The prison woodshop ended up being shut down. I learned to cut some stuff back then, but I was only focused on boxes. It wouldn’t be until a sentence later that the seed of this collection started to grow. It started in Kentucky with the designing of my first piece, “Our Battles Make Us Stronger.” Back in early 2004, I was shipped to the Lee Adjustment Center, where a lot of Vermonters were sent. That was where I was faced with a dilemma. I had a college opportunity on the one hand, and this kind of fucked-up situation on the other hand. The choice felt like, at the time: either move forward with this college opportunity and live in a facility where the conditions are deteriorating [due to overcrowding and reduced privileges], or support what became the uprising and potentially destroy the college opportunity. Which it did. During the rioting, the administration building ended up getting burned; [it had] contained the school where the outside college was coming in to hold classes. “Our Battles” was designed based on that experience.

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he eight large-scale scrollwork scenes on the walls at the Flynn Center for the Perfoming Arts’ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington are intricate, fantastical and richly layered, both in their construction and in the story behind their creation. Artist and writer Jeremy Lee MacKenzie surreptitiously sketched plans for the detailed carvings while serving time in prison. Those plans, and the woodcuts they inspired, are on view at “Hidden Blueprints,” a show that reveals the creative process spanning many years, and phases, of MacKenzie’s life. In 2000, when MacKenzie was 17, he entered the prison system. Over the next 13 years he served time for sentences related to drug trafficking and bank robbery — eight years total. In 2004, he was transferred to the privately owned Lee Adjustment Center in Kentucky. And in the fall of that year, the jail erupted with an inmate-led uprising — an event that MacKenzie pinpoints as the catalyst for his first scrollwork blueprint. While serving his final sentence at Vermont’s Northwest State Correctional Facility, he dedicated more and more time to designing his allegorical works. Themes include youth, rebirth and imagination, with highly geometric floral motifs. After MacKenzie’s final release in March 2013, the Burlington native set to work fabricating these stories. He transferred his drawings to multiple thin sheets of wood, then used a scroll saw to painstakingly carve out the shapes. He also enrolled at Champlain College, where he is studying cinematography. Seven Days spoke with MacKenzie about his life, his process and his future.

Why did you hide your blueprints? Prisons have strange rules. Sometimes the rules don’t make sense. Down in Kentucky, you could have Popsicle sticks and create ornate constructions out of them, but you couldn’t have taped-together pieces of paper because you could cover a hole in a wall with it. The strangeness of the rules is what caused me to hide my collection. One of the other problems is that my work looks an awful lot like tattoo designs. I would fold them up and stash them in my legal work.

One thing I want to make clear: It’s not like all of the guards are bad people who you have to hide your drawings from. There were plenty of guards, throughout both of my sentences, who were perfectly reasonable people, who would just look at [my art] and appreciate it. But it only takes one person who’s going to enforce the rules blindly and take something like my work and throw it in the garbage. It’s [that] guard who makes you want to stash it away.

Your scenes always include the sun and the moon. When did you start doing this, and why? I started adding the sun and moon pretty “Influence” much from the beginning. They were symbols of the passage of time. Every art piece was a glimpse into my experience on the inside, even though the scenes had nothing to do with prison at all. The sun and moon are also symbols of duality, and my experience in life has kinda been filled with that. Your work is cinematic in certain ways. Can you describe your relationship to film? On the inside, I had a job for a while as a movie projectionist. I saw the way that a well-told story brought freedom into people’s lives, and that a good movie could really take

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[prisoners] out of their environment for a while. I decided at that time that I wanted to become a filmmaker when I came home. I wanted to be a screenwriter because the part that interested me was the story. I asked some family to look up the college courses for screenwriting and filmmaking, and find out what books they were using at different colleges. I had them order the books and send them in to me. I got as many of those books as I could and just studied them like scripture. There was someone [on the inside] who I could have look up screenplays. Prisons don’t often recycle. So I would go around and collect paper [and] I had somebody print me screenplays on it. So I got lots of screenplays printed and studied the hell out of them. One of the screenwriting books that I was studying was written by Dave Trottier. I’m reading his book one day, The Screenwriter’s Bible, and I come to a particular page where he says, the reader wants to know that you’re not just gonna write one great script and retire to a farm in Vermont. At the time I’m living in a prison that’s built on a farm in Vermont. So I write [Trottier] a letter and say, “This is who I am and this is what I’m doing, and I assure you I’m not gonna retire on this farm in Vermont.” And he wrote me back! That was huge, because at the time, I’m not in college yet. I’m still in prison. I don’t have a shot yet. And now this screenwriter writes me back at a critical moment. So I kept writing and studying, and it ended up leading me all the way to film school. Now I’m producing my first films. One script is now in the finals for the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards.

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f ‘Visions of Lake Champlain and Beyond’: Local landscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette; pastels by Athenia Schinto and Betty Ball; and jewelry by Tineke Russell. Reception: Saturday, September 26, 2-7 p.m. September 26-December 30. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

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f Judith Stone: “See Feelingly: Weigh and Balance,” sculptural pieces responding to the gritty nature of construction sites. Reception: Friday, October 2, 5:30 p.m. September 23-October 24. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

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En Plein Air Painting Festival: An en plein air painting competition and art sale with exhibits, workshops, demonstrations and talks open to the public. Prizes will be awarded. September 26-October 3. Competition: $40 for adults. $10 for ages 17 and younger; festival: $11.50-13.50. Info, 359-5000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee.

f Monique van de Ven: “Gleaned Near South Royalton,” ceramics inspired by and incorporating objects found in nature. Reception: Friday, October 23, 5-7 p.m. September 29-December 5. Info, 7637094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

art events Warren Kimble Talk: The artist discusses his work in conjunction with a current retrospective exhibit. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, September 23, noon. Info, 388-2117. Amy Morel: Gallery Talk: The artist discusses her sculpture in a current exhibit. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Thursday, September 24, 5:30 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117. Festival of Tibetan Arts & Culture of the ADK Coast: The opening reception honors guest Tenzin Dechen, personal assistant to the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama North American Office of Tibet in Washington, D.C. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y., Thursday, September 24, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Info, 518-564-2474. PechaKucha Night, Volume 17: Six-minute narrated slide shows by local creatives: Samantha Bellinger, Rob Hitzig, Sarah Vogelsang-Card/Deb Lyons, Beth Haggart, Trisha Denton, Lee Krohn, R. Elliott Katz, Felix Wai, Milton Rosa-Ortiz, Jean Luc Dushime, Shacksbury Cider, Elise Guyette/ Gail Rosenberg, Susan Raber Bray, Erin Davis and Ken Signorello. Contois Auditorium at City Hall, Burlington, Thursday, September 24, 6-8 p.m. Info, 656-0750.

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Judith Stone “The slow, deliberate, strangely reptilian movement of the

lumbering mechanical beasts,” Stone writes of her subject, “their seemingly inexorable power, have never lost their fascination for me.” In her studio work, the artist has continuously explored the “gritty subject of construction sites” over a 30-year obsession — even during teaching gigs as far away as Tokyo. “See Feelingly: Weigh and Balance,” an exhibition of her mixed-media works, is on view through October 24 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. A reception is Friday, October 2, at 5:30 p.m. Pictured: “Facts on the Ground I.” Drink & Draw Burlesque: A figure drawing session with burlesque star Callista Rugo as model. All experience levels welcome. Drawing pad and tools provided, or bring your own. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, Friday, September 25, 6-8 p.m. $24; $20 in advance, $18 for members; includes two drinks. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. ‘Off the Wall: The Resistance of Otto Dix’s Silverpoints’: James van Dyke, a University of Missouri-Columbia art historian, considers the meaning of the technique in the artist’s scenes of sex and violence during and after 1933. Lunch is provided. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Friday, September 25, 11:30 a.m. $5; free with college ID. Info, 443-3168. Pentangle Light Garden: Woodstock Village Green is turned into an illuminated wonderland with sculptural “garden plots” designed by local artists. Woodstock Green, Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Info, 457-3981. 28th Annual Burke Fall Foliage Festival: A craft show, interactive reptile exhibit, parade, food, music and activities (including Cow Plop Bingo) for all ages. East Burke Village, Saturday, September 26, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Art on Main Silent Auction @ Bristol Harvest Festival: Bid on fine arts and crafts, local services and gift certificates, soft goods and the wares of local vendors. All proceeds advance the AOM mission of supporting the arts, local artists and the engagement of the creative communities. Bristol Town Green, Saturday, September 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 453-4032. BCA Summer Artist Market: A juried outdoor market featuring handmade original fine art and crafts by Vermont artists and artisans, in conjunction with the Burlington Farmers Market. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, September 26, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

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Sarah Rosedahl: Book Signing and Painting Demonstration: The Vermont artist and author of the children’s book Chickens! demonstrates watercolor painting and talks about her artistic process. The Art House, Craftsbury, Saturday, September 26, noon-2 p.m. Info, 586-2200. Vermont Woodworking & Forest Festival: Woodworking vendors, demonstrations by the Vermont Wood Manufacturers Association and all-ages activities are at both the National Park and the Billings Farm & Museum, a working dairy farm, across the street. Carriage Barn Visitor Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Woodstock, Saturday, September 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Park events are free; museum events are free with museum admission. Mary Crowley: Drawing Workshop: “Drawing Made Easy: Anyone Can Draw This Way,” a four-step drawing method for all ages and skill levels. Materials available. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon, Sunday, September 27, 1-2:15 p.m. Info, 247-4295. Taste and Tour: Champlain Orchards: A Vermont Land Trust walking tour with Bill Suhr and artist Cameron Davis with samples of Champlain Orchards foods, in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition “Eyes on the Land” at Shelburne Museum. Champlain Orchards, Shoreham, Sunday, September 27, 3-5 p.m. $15; $10 for VLT members. Info, 262-1222. William Hosley Slide Show and Lecture: The former director of the New Haven Museum gives a presentation on the history of Vermont furniture makers, titled “Vermont Furniture and Woodwork: The Art of Our Towns,” in conjunction with a current exhibit. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, Sunday, September 27, 2 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 985-3346.

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“Jeremy MacKenzie: Hidden Blueprints” is on view through November 28 at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, in Burlington. Open Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and prior to Flynn MainStage shows to ticket holders. flynncenter.org

Steve Roggenbuck: “Make something beautiful before you are dead,” an exhibit and artist residency by the “alt lit” poet and YouTube artist. Through September 30. Info, cthompson@champlain.edu. Center for Communication and Creative Media, Champlain College, in Burlington.

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B. Dales: “Ahead of the Curve,” an exhibit of contemporary quilts from the last 18 years of the artist’s flowing, abstract style. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

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‘Juxtaposed Spaces’: Works in a variety of mediums by Shelburne Craft School instructors and staff including Wylie Garcia, Sarah Ahrens and Sage Tucker-Ketcham. Through December 1. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School.

f ‘2015 South End Art Hop Juried Show Winners’: Featuring juried winners in order: “Bill at Conant” by Eleanor Lanahan; “Slum Landlord” by John Brickles; “Desk Chair” by Amey Radcliffe; and People’s Choice winner “Waiting for the Parade” by Sarah McGarghan. Reception: Friday, October 2, 5-7 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

‘Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850’: A decorative arts showcase of furniture from Shelburne Museum and other collections that helps define the styles, economics and aesthetic innovations in 19th-century Vermont design. Through November 1. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

Anne Massicotte and Gerald K. Stoner: “Beasts and Other Reflections” by the artists from Québec and Vermont, respectively. Through October 31. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington.

Robert Vogel: Watercolor sketches by the local artist. Through September 30. Info, 899-3225. Red Mill Jericho.

Art Hop Group Show: An exhibit organized by SEABA for this year’s Art Hop features works by 30 local artists. Through November 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

Robert Vogel Watercolors: Twelve paintings by the local artist. Through October 31. Info, 863-6363. Harper’s Restaurant at the Holiday Inn in South Burlington.

Emily Mitchelle: Playful acrylic paintings. Through November 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee (Pine Street) in Burlington. ‘Excerpts From the West Side’: Sculpture and installation created by artists who have worked and studied at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland, including Don Ramey, Bart Uchida, Carol Driscoll, Charles Austin, Kevin Donegan, B. Amore, Glen Campbell and Jackie Kirkman Campbell. Through September 25. Info, 617-7807701. RL Photo in Burlington. ‘Found: Portraits in Collective Memory’: Art from found and repurposed objects, photographs and media by Alex Costantino, Anne Cummings, Athena Tasiopoulos and Athena Kafantaris. Through September 29. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com. ONE Arts Center in Burlington.

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Helen Stringfellow and Lars Jerlach: “Looking Back Is a Bad Habit,” a video installation exploring the American Western. Through October 2. Info, 656-4200. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington.

f ‘In Grain: Contemporary Work in Wood’: Contemporary wood sculpture with examples of hand- and machine-carved figurative, abstract and geometric works and laser-cut biomorphic forms by 10 artists. Through December 18. f ‘Sex Objects: Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality’: An exhibition of everyday and ceremonial art and artifacts curated by 40 anthropology and art history students. Through May 22, 2016. f ‘World Leaders & Global Citizens: Photographs by Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator’: An exhibit organized on the 40th anniversary of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s first term, featuring his view of historical events over the the past few decades. Reception: Friday, September 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through December 18. Info, 656-0750. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington. Jane Ann Kantor: “The Equus Series,” bold textural paintings. Through September 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Jeremy Lee MacKenzie: “Hidden Blueprints,” intricate wood scrollwork by the Champlain College student, who secretly made drawings for his artwork while incarcerated. Through November 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Jordan Douglas: “Images of Havana,” photography by the local artist. Through October 31. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington. joshuA: “Ex Libris,” mixed-media works with found text. Through September 30. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Radio Bean in Burlington.

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Linda Di Sante: “Birds of a Feather,” watercolors and drawings of birds. Through September 30. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

‘Pentangle Light Garden’ As the sun sets earlier and earlier

each evening, Woodstock fights the night with an illuminated installation of sculptures on the village green this Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. This year, visitors are invited to stroll past a Northern Lights-inspired display, a gigantic, glowing slice of watermelon, a reclaimed Lake Champlain wood installation

and much more. Light gardeners this year are Jordan Engel, Barbara Bartlett and Adrian Tans. Pictured: last year’s “Light Garden,” photographed by Rick Russell. ‘Make Moran: The Art of Transformation’: A group exhibit of works by artists who have participated in projects at Burlington’s former power plant: Sarah O Donnell, Katharine Montstream, Mary Lacy, Erika Senft Miller, Monika Rivard, Daniel Cardon and Clark Derbes. Through October 9. Info, 861-3155. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. ‘Maritime Burlington’: An interactive exhibit organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum under a tent at Perkins Pier: hands-on activities, historic photos, highlights from the museum’s nautical archaeology work and research, and lake tours. Through October 12. Info, 475-2022. Perkins Pier in Burlington. Matt Forsyth: “BounD: A World Beyond,” pencil, ink and digital works by the cocreator of the comic book BounD. Through October 10. Info, 802-3990717. Drink in Burlington. ‘Never Had No One Ever: The Art of Collage’: Artworks that explore “the human experience of discovery through loss” by Carl David Ruttan, Molly Bosley, W. David Powell, Shavon Kenney, Athena Tasiopoulos and Paula Grenon. Through October 27. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. ‘Of the Spray Can, by the Spray Can, for the Spray Can’: Artwork by the Anthill Collective. Through September 30. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Renée Savoie & Ginny Joyner: “The Assemblage of My Life,” assemblage and mixed media from Québec artist Savoie; “Inspired by Vintage,” watercolors, giclée prints and cards by Vermont artist Joyner. Through September 30. Info, 488-5766. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington. RILEY: “Pieces of My Mind,” abstract paintings. Through November 15. Info, 448-3657. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington. Sam Simon: “Portraits From Burlington’s ONE,” photographs of the artist’s diverse neighbors in the Old North End. Through September 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

f ‘Seven Days Uncovered’: More than 1,000 issues later, Seven Days is celebrating its 20th year with an exhibit of 40 favorite covers from 1995 to 2015. And they’re for sale! All covers include reclaimed barn board frames handcrafted by Dostie Bros. Frame Shop. Silent auction closing party: Thursday, October 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sales benefit SEABA. $5. Through October 1. Info, 864-5684. The Skinny Pancake (Burlington). StaciAnne K. Grove: “No More Hiroshimas,” an interactive exhibition of design, photography, paper sculptures and video that marks the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Through September 30. Info, 862-9616. Burlington College. ‘Strength in Numbers: Exploring Material and Techniques’: A group of 18 art teachers exhibit ongoing explorations in multiple media. Through December 30. Info, 865-7211. Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

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Annelein Beukenkamp: “Flowers, Figures and Fowl,” watercolors by the Burlington artist. Through October 11. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. ‘Birds of a Fiber’: A community art show. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. John W. Long: Wall hung sculptural works using reclaimed wood. Through November 30. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. ‘Joined: Inspired Approaches to Vermont Contemporary Furniture and Wood Design’: Inventive fine design by eight Vermont wood and furniture designers, including curator David Hurwitz. Through October 21. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. ‘Travel With Ogden Pleissner’: A selection of the artist’s lesser-known American and European landscapes, along with other American paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Judy

Victoria Blewer: “Fall’s Call,” black-and-white hand-colored photographs inspired by the “quiet cycling of the Earth in autumn that recurs each year.” Through October 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

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‘Rock Solid for 15 Years’: This annual exhibit showcases stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists in the Main Floor Gallery. In addition, a variety of sculptures created from granite are on permanent installation around downtown Barre. Alex Costantino: “Pattern & Signal,” paintings and ceramic sculptures by the Burlington artist, Third Floor Gallery. Linda Bryan: “Tarpentry,” a visual narrative of landscape and culture, Second Floor Gallery. Through October 30. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. ‘Avian Encounters’: Watercolors and watercolor collages by Nancy Tomczak. Through October 28. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Diane Fitch: “Interior Spaces,” paintings. Through September 26. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield. ‘The Fantastical World of Liz Le Serviget’: A painted menagerie of canvas, furniture, rocks and more. Through September 30. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. ‘Fleeting Moments: Why We Go On’: Thirteen Vermont artists exhibit photography, sculpture and mixed-media works made from the pulp of recycled combat uniforms, in response to the themes of love, loss, hardship and joy in A Fleeting Animal, an opera by David Budbill and Erik Nielsen. Through September 27. ‘Sound and Fury’: A group show by 18 artists who attempt to answer life’s unanswerable questions. Through November 8. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams: Watercolors and pastels by the Vermont artist. Through October 2. Info, kathrena@tds.net. Info, 223-7936, ext. 320. City Center in Montpelier. ‘A Legacy of Caring: Kurn Hattin Homes for Children’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Mark Lorah: Blocky abstract artworks. Through November 30. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre. Nadya Beck: “Spirit Brings,” clay sculptures by the local artist. Through October 11. Info, 454-0141. Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield.

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Their Playlists: call to artists the art of GivinG : the GivinG of art: Compass is accepting work for its second annual holiday show, November 6 to January 9. seeking fun, functional, decorative, wearable, festive or other works in the form of 2D and 3D artwork, holiday decorations, jewelry, gifts or ornaments. All work must be priced at $250 or less. Commission is 35 percent. submission deadline: october 7. Delivery by october 31. Forms are available at cmacvt. org or cmacvt.wufoo.com/ forms/mrz29id0kr5pn9. Compass music and Arts Center, Brandon. $5 per 2D & 3D piece; $5 per 15 ornaments. Info, 247-4295. arts connect at catamount arts annual Juried show: Northern New england’s largest independent arts center is pleased to announce its first annual juried show. Artists may submit up to five works in any medium created within the last five years; exhibit is in Catamount Arts gallery in st. Johnsbury for December/ January. Cash prizes. submission fee includes a one-year membership ($50

value), which gives discount admission at Catamount Arts and nearly 50 other art-house cinemas in the u.s. Visit catamountarts.slideroom.com to apply. Deadline: october 12. Catamount Arts Center, st. Johnsbury. $60. Info, 748-2600. call to artists: one arts’ holiday market: oNe Arts seeks local artists who would like to submit unique handcrafted gifts to exhibit and sell at a holiday market. The gallery will be open extended hours starting in November through the middle of December. work will be taken on consignment; there’s a 40 percent commission fee per piece. we ask all participating artists to volunteer four hours to help staff the market. To submit, email oneartscollective@gmail.com with three photos of sample pieces and price per object. submission deadline: october 5. Drop off: october 20. oNe Arts Center, Burlington. Info, 603-667-3149. ‘hoodoo voodoo ii’: seeking submissions for an evening of fall/harvest/halloweeninspired performance and visual art with any halloween theme of your choice: supernatural, fantasy, costumes, candy, harvest

time, gothic, etc. submission deadline: october 10. event on saturday, october 31. Visual artists, contact Jennifer Blair at mother_red_cap@comcast. net. performance artists, contact Jamie Kaplan at jamieanicks@gmail.com. Rose street Artists’ Cooperative and gallery, Burlington. Info, 864-7738.

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island arts 2016: Artists are invited to submit an application for the 2016 juried gallery schedule. submit an artist statement including the medium(s) used and 2-5 digital images of work to the Island Arts south hero gallery Committee by october 31. All mediums welcome. Info, maryjomccarthy@gmail.com or 372-6047, or heidi Chamberlain at 372-3346. Island Arts south hero gallery. Info, 372-6047. ‘oddity’: Calling for submissions for an exhibition of the strange, eerie and illusive; photographs that lend themselves to an implied narrative or otherworldly perception. Documentary shots, multiple exposures, constructions, staged, anything goes. Juried by oliver wasow. $24 for four images, $5 each additional. Info: darkroomgallery.com/ ex75. Deadline: midnight on october 6. Darkroom gallery, essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. Untitled-11 1

f robert waldo brunelle Jr. and edward kadunc: New works in multiple mediums by the Vermont artists. Reception: Friday, september 25, 5-7:30 p.m. Through November 13. Info, 262-6035. T. w. wood gallery in montpelier.

‘verve: art & enerGy’: mixed media, sculpture and other works by a dozen Vermont visual and literary artists that reveal the energetic tension of line and color, and reveal life force. Through october 4. Info, 223-6613. The Kent Tavern museum in Calais.

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carole rosalind drury: “To Joe,” a selection of paintings from “The Fall” series, dedicated to the artist’s former partner. hal mayforth: “Two Trains Running,” large abstract paintings, small works on wood panel and sketches by the Vermont illustrator. Through November 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in morrisville.

dave kearns: “The Visitors,” paintings and sculptural works. Through october 3. Info, 347-6023733. Vermont studio Center gallery II in Johnson. ‘edGe of nature’: Artwork in a variety of media by eight female artists who explore the joy and variety of nature. Through october 14. Info, 253-2597. Comfort Farm in stowe. ‘exposed’: The 24th annual outdoor exhibit features 18 sculptures and installations by regional artists, sited at the gallery, downtown and along the recreation path. Through october 14. ‘fractured: works on paper’: Two- and three-dimensional works by 11 artists including Kiki smith, Leonardo Drew and olafur eliasson that deconstruct space as interpreted through architecture, optics and narrative. Through November 22. Info, 253-8358. helen Day Art Center in stowe. patricia martini: “Landscape: A Child’s View,” an mFA thesis exhibition. Through september 23. Info, 635-1469. Julian scott memorial gallery, Johnson state College. paul stone: surreal, dreamlike New england landscape paintings. Through september 30. Info, 253-1818. green mountain Fine Art gallery in stowe.

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‘2015 leGacy collection’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 now-deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and mary Bryan. Through December 30. Info, 644-5100. Bryan memorial gallery in Jeffersonville.

f clark derbes: “self-portrait,” polychromed sculpture, wall pieces and works on canvas influenced by the graveyard of truck beds in Burlington’s south end. Through september 30. f stephanie bush: “20 Years; An Artist’s evolution,” a mid-career retrospective of works on canvas and mylar exploring cultural diversity, color and artistic traditions. Through october 31. f val rossman: Abstract works in pastel on paper, and acrylic on aluminum. Through october 5. Info, 253-8943. west Branch gallery & sculpture park in stowe.

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‘women of norwich: trailblazers and torchbearers’: photographs, documents, uniforms and objects celebrating the women who were “first,” from the first ladies of university presidents to the first women in the Corps of Cadets and so-called nontraditional fields. Through December 31. Info, 485-2183. sullivan museum & history Center, Norwich university, in Northfield.

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tom leytham: “The other working Landscape,” 20 giclée prints of industrial sites from forgotten and ignored parts of Vermont’s industrial and pastoral history. Through september 30. Info, 229-0430. governor’s gallery in montpelier.

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f ‘Love of Fantasy’: Two- and three-dimensional paintings and multimedia constructions that explore fantasy and creation by Jim Abatiell, Joan Curtis, Robert Hooker and Mark Horwedel. Reception: Friday, September 25, 5-7 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.

‘Photographing the Flower’: Photographs by seven participants in River Arts’ workshop taught by Kent Shaw. Through November 2. Info, 888-1261. Morrisville Post Office. Raven Pfaff: Realistic graphite portraits in the living room. Through October 20. Info, 635-7423. The Lovin’ Cup in Johnson.

‘Love of Kinship’: Diverse artwork from members and a former director. Through October 17. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

‘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.

‘Memory Work: SculptFest 2015’: Sculptural works by Robert Bennett Jr., Katherine Langlands, Mark Lorah, Zoë Marr Hilliard, Stella Marrs, Angus McCullough, Samuel Spellman and Mary Zompetti in the annual outdoor exhibit. Through October 25. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

Tod Gunter Aviation Art: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter, and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighter-bomber active in Vietnam. More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Gallery in Stowe.

Peter Lundberg and Florin Strejac: “Transylvanian Influence,” rice paper paintings, small sculptures and abstract marble works. Through October 2. Info, 800-639-8521. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

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Bob Aiken: “Vermont Impressionist,” landscapes depicting rural fields, rivers, mountains and small villages, in acrylic with a palette knife. Through December 31. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

‘What EMMA Loves’: A group exhibit exploring a variety of media by 10 East Mountain Mentoring Artists (EMMA). Through November 1. Info, 2474295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

GMCC’s 25th Annual Art in the Round Barn: An annual community-based exhibit with a mix of painting, sculpture and mixed-media work, including fiber, metal and wood. Through October 12. Info, 496-7722. Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield. HiVE Collective Fall Exhibit: Paintings by members Liz Harris, Nancy VanDine and Jessica Churchill-Millard and furniture and decorative objects by Kelly Fekert-McMullen, along with works by 30 local artists. Through November 30. Info, sca66@hotmail.com. The Hive in Middlesex. James McGarrell & Mark Goodwin: Imagistic paintings from 1984 to 2004; and recent two-dimensional work. Through October 10. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Karla Van Vliet: “Dream Risen,” paintings inspired by dreams and the unconscious. Through September 26. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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‘Local Color’: Paintings, textiles, pottery, glass and other media by 45-plus member artists exploring Vermont’s natural and built environment. Glorious Glass: Fused and blown glass by Alyssa Oxley, Bud Shriner and Micaela Wallace. Through September 30. Sean Dye: Vermont landscapes in oil, acrylic and pastel. Through September 30. Info, 338-0136. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. Anna Dibble: “Lest Our Vine End (L.O.V.E.),” figurative and abstract paintings that address the loss of the artist’s spouse, mother and dog. Through September 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. ‘Naked Truth: The Body in Early 20thCentury German and Austrian Art’: Prints, drawings and watercolors by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and others whose work addressed the relationship of the nude body and contemporary morality. Through December 13. ‘The Art of Storytelling: Five Tales From Asia, Then and Now’: Painted and printed interpretations of five stories from the 16th century to the present are accompanied by comics, illustrations and other digital media. Visitors can make a comic of their own. Through October 2. Info, 443-5258. Middlebury College Museum of Art. ‘Catching the Moment: The Art of Photographing Live Performance’: Performance photographs taken at the Town Hall Theater over the last 15 years by Trent Campbell, Cindi Duff, Max Kraus and Ernie Longey. Through October 11. Info, 388-8209. 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury.

champlain islands/northwest Barry & Maureen Genzlinger and Blue Crayon Artist Studio Students: Three- and two-dimensional works, respectively. Through September 30. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

Studio Place Arts Fall Show Through October 30, the Barre art center fills all three of its galleries with fantastic and representational works by

local and regional artists. The Main Floor Gallery presents “Rock Solid for Fifteen Years,” the annual exhibition of works in stone alongside thematic two-dimensional pieces. The show includes 20 artists. Second and Third Floor galleries feature “Tarpentry,” landscapes by Linda Bryan; and “Pattern & Signal,” paintings and ceramic sculptures by Alex Costantino, respectively. Pictured: “California Condor” by Costantino.

Dennis Sheehan: “Everyday,” moody landscape paintings influenced by the French Barbizon School and the American Tonalists. Through September 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. ‘The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850-1880’: Drawings from agricultural papers capturing 19th-century Vermont farm life and times by a member of the museum homestead’s family. Through October 25. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. ‘Form and Movement: Sculpture and Drawings’: Works by students that show the process from drawing to fabrication in steel. Through September 29. ‘To Dwell’: Senior Thesis Architecture: A selection of architectural design work by students in the Class of 2015. Through September 30. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Jean Cherouny: “OPEN,” new works by the Ripton artist and teacher. Through October 31. Info, 877-2211. Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes. Peter Fried: “Addison: Land Meets Sky,” an exhibit of Addison County landscapes in the artist’s new gallery. Through October 8. Info, 355-1447. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes.

‘Photo Voice: Nine Residents Share Images of a Troubled and Treasured Neighborhood’: Images that reflect, record and relay what is important about everyday life by nine nonartist residents of Rutland City’s Northwest neighborhood. Through October 3. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Stacey Stanhope Dundon: “Back in the Saddle: 25 Years of Horse Play,” oil paintings, dinnerware and decorative, large-scale horse heads. Through November 30. Info, 388-1639. The National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. ‘Warren Kimble, All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective’: The internationally known Vermont artist exhibits a lifetime of work, including his “Sunshine” series, “Widows of War” paintings and sculpture, and more recent “House of Cards” and “Into the Box” series, which features open-faced boxes filled with found objects and architectural assemblages. Also on view is the Kimbles’ personal collection of folk art. Through October 18. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

David Stromeyer Sculpture: The artist opens his private park to visitors for the summer and early fall. On view are about 50 large-scale sculptures that represent four decades of work inspired by the rhythms, forms and patterns of the Vermont landscape. Through October 12. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

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‘America’s Michelangelo: The Life and Classical Works of Constantino Brumidi’: An exhibit of text and images in honor of the works of Constantino Brumidi, the artist who painted the “Apotheosis of Washington,” in the U.S. Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C., in celebration of its ongoing restoration. Through October 12. $6. Info, 765-4288. Justin Morrill Homestead in Strafford. ‘Birds Are Dinosaurs’: An exhibit tracing the evolution of birds from their ancestors includes skeletons and life-size replicas by paleo-artist Todd Marshall. Hands-on activities include a replica dig site. Through October 31. $11.50-13.50. Info, 359-5000. VINS Nature Center in Hartford. Carrie Pill: “Nature’s Palette,” landscape paintings on canvas and paper. Through October 31. Info, 359-5001. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. ‘Crisis de Octubre; The Cuban Missile Crisis’: The ninth annual Slavo-Vermontia-philic exhibition featuring art, artifacts, memories, music and photographs of the Cold War era from the United States, Russia and Cuba. Through November 1. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Ivy Leaf: Abstract artwork in a variety of media. Through September 26. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton. Janet Cathey: Mixed-media prints by the local artist, printmaker and educator. Through September 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Jen Violette and Linda Rosenthal: Mixed-media and still-life wall sculptures and handblown glass, and abstract photography, respectively. Through September 30. Info, 4571298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

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Keith Sonnier: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. Peter Saul: A retrospective exhibit that spans 1959 to 2012 and includes colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and, occasionally, politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@ hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading, 05062. ‘lamb With a Plan’: Photographs of nursing-home therapy lambs by sheep-farming photographers Emily Howe and John O’Brien. Through October 3. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. ‘local color’: Annual autumn exhibit of work by local artists, inspired by life within the working landscape. Through October 10. Info, 392-4656. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret. 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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“art + comPuter / time”: Computer-generated artwork from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection from 1954 to the present. Through September 27. Debra bermingham: “Threaded Dances,” surreal landscapes in oil. Through October 25. Jim Dine: “People, Places, Things,” a retrospective in multiple media. Through October 25. ray ruSecKaS: “Close to Home,” landscapes in pastels. Through October 25. roDrigo nava: “Expanded Forms,” steel sculptures on the museum grounds. Through October 25. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. tim coWleS: Paintings, drawing and sculpture from a lifetime of work. Through September 30. Info, kspchapin@gmail.com. Info, 257-9329. The Brooks House Atrium in Brattleboro.

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Dianne taylor moore: “This Side of the River,” vibrant pastel landscape paintings of Vermont and New Hampshire. Through October 3. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artists Guild in St. Johnsbury.

JuDy loWry: “New Landscapes,” paintings of northern Vermont. Through October 26. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

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viSionS ii’: Paintings and prints of objects such as chairs, chests of drawers and beds in a woodland setting, juxaposing the homey and familiar with the primal forces of nature. Reception: Friday, October 2, 5-7 p.m. Through October 26. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

‘graSSrootS art: inWarD aDoringS oF the minD’: Folk, outsider and visionary artists’ works from the museum’s and the Gregg Blasdel/ Jennifer Koch collections include textiles, ceramics, weathervanes, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Through November 1. ‘PeoPle/Place: american Social lanDScaPe PhotograPhy, 1950-1980’: Photographs exploring the human condition within the public sphere and the social landscape by Jonathan Brand, John Hubbard, Neil Rappaport, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Through November 8. JenniFer Koch anD gregg blaSDel: Seven collaborative prints from a series titled “Marriages of Reason” by the Burlington artists. Through October 16. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. north bennington outDoor SculPture ShoW: Outdoor sculptures sited in and around the village by 44 artists. Through October 25. Various locations around North Bennington.

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‘SloW literature: the narrative taPeStrieS oF Sarah SWett’: Woven tapestries that combine narrative and playful realism. amy morel: “Relationscape,” wood and steel sculptures from several past series. Dianne Shullenberger: “Outside Influences,” three series of fabric collages inspired by spirituality and the outdoors. Jeanne heiFetz: “Geometry of Hope,” mixed-media work built from nontraditional, industrial materials including acid-etched glass rods, wire and stainless-steel mesh. Through October 9. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘can you Dig it?’: A community exhibit celebrating music-album cover art, in the Rotunda Gallery. Through October 11. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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Fairbrother, John t. KirK anD the hooD muSeum oF art’: Almost 140 paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and early American furniture from the Fairbrother-Kirk collection and the museum, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, Carl Andre, John O’Reilly, John Singer Sargent and others. Art Talk: Friday, September 25, 4:30 p.m. Through December 6. Info, 603-646-2095. canaletto’S veDute PrintS: An exhibition honoring collector and donor Adolph Weil Jr. features etchings from the early 1740s of Venetian scenes by Antonio Canaletto. Through December 6. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. ‘george S. zimbel: a humaniSt PhotograPher’: Images from collection of the documentary photographer covering 1953 to 1955, which includes his shots of Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grate during the filming of The Seven Year Itch by director Billy Wilder. Through January 3. ‘metamorPhoSeS: in roDin’S StuDio’: Nearly 300 works by the French sculptor, including masterpieces shown for the first time in North America, in collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris. Through October 18. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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‘memorieS’: The annual exhibition and sale of work by Vermont Watercolor Society artists is in the Downstairs Gallery. Through October 31. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

angela arKWay: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” landscapes, still life and portraits in pastels and oil. Through October 9. Info, 362-4061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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‘DuSt’: Displays include samples of “this most ubiquitous substance” from around the world, and the cosmos, as well as unique moments in the history of dust and a visual history of dust removal. Through November 30. Info, claredol@ sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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‘DinoSaur DiScoverieS: ancient FoSSilS, neW iDeaS’: Fossils and models reveal how current thoughts on dinosaur biology have changed since the 1990s. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through December 15. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

vermont artiStS grouP ShoW: Fine art and handcrafted goods by 110 Vermont artists exhibited in a former grist mill. Through October 17. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

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ohnny Depp ditches the flouncy flourishes, silly accents and funny hats and gets back down to the business of acting in Black Mass, easily his finest film in a decade. He disappears behind a science project of prosthetics, lenses and wigs to play the almost mythical Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Bulger is a figure so complex, criminally depraved and charismatic that he’s been the subject of a Showtime series (“Brotherhood”) and three movies besides this one: last year’s excellent documentary Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger; Whitey Bulger: The Making of a Monster (2015); and Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed (2006), in which he was the basis for Jack Nicholson’s over-the-top Frank Costello. Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) and Depp go in the opposite direction, opting for understatement and a gritty, ’70s-style realism for the telling of a tale so outlandish that it would insult the audience’s intelligence if it weren’t the documented truth. Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the Boston Globe reporters who broke the story, Black Mass chronicles Bulger’s rise from a small-time Southie hood to Boston’s most notorious crime lord.

That career trajectory was made possible by a secret pact with — are you sitting down? — the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Joel Edgerton costars as FBI agent John Connolly, a childhood friend of Bulger who returns to the neighborhood with a proposition. In exchange for information that will aid the agency in rooting out the city’s Italian mafia, he’ll provide cover for Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang. The mobster is initially dubious but quickly comes to see the possibilities in Connolly’s pitch. “An alliance like this doesn’t weaken you,” the agent promises. “It makes you stronger.” And that’s precisely what it does. Connolly plays superiors and fellow investigators (Kevin Bacon and Adam Scott among the actors portraying them) for fools, claiming that Bulger is an invaluable asset. In reality, the mobster provides little useful information (but lots of dirty cash) and uses his free pass to expand his empire of extortion, drug dealing, numbers running, arms sales, murder and, for a brief time, the Florida jai alai industry. Did I mention that Bulger’s brother (Benedict Cumberbatch) was William “Billy” Bulger, the president of the Massachusetts senate? You can’t make this stuff up. Can you imagine what Thanksgiving must

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL Cooper’s latest explores the unholy alliance with the FBI that aided Whitey Bulger in his rise to power.

have looked like for a family that contained both the most powerful figure in Boston politics and its most powerful crime figure? We don’t get that scene, but we do get a memorable snapshot of the brothers paying an early-morning visit to their mother’s humble apartment. Billy cooks breakfast while Whitey agrees to a hand of cards, which Mom wins by fixing the deck. There’s almost a tenderness in his voice when he folds and quips, “Thanks for cheating, Ma.” It’s a humanizing moment in a character study filled with inhumanity and duplicity at their most extreme. Cooper, a former actor, ably elicits first-rate work from his extensive cast. Depp and Edgerton dominate, delivering masterfully calibrated performances. The script, credited to Mark Mallouk and

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Lady showcase turns into a subtler portrait of a woman who’s loved, lost and made hard choices. Elle’s cynicism may be knee-jerk, but it’s earned. The character feels like an expansion of Tomlin’s turn as Tina Fey’s radical, romancehating mom in the otherwise forgettable rom com Admission (2013). That’s no surprise, given that Paul Weitz directed both (as well as writing Grandma). In many ways, this film makes good on the slight comic and dramatic potential of the earlier one.

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randma is a small movie that marks the return of a huge talent: Lily Tomlin. The comedian hasn’t had much of a feature showcase since the 1990s, which means a whole generation lacks significant exposure to her gimlet eyes and sardonic aplomb. Tomlin is like Bill Murray: She will never not be slyly subversive. So when she plays a grandma, of course it’s not going to be a cookie-baking sweetie or even that tired stereotype of the “sassy” grandma. It’s going to be a gravel-voiced, misanthropic feminist poet who matter-of-factly accompanies her teenage granddaughter (Julia Garner) on a daylong odyssey to procure cash for an abortion. And Tomlin is going to make that character — who readily acknowledges that she’s a “terrible person” — both likable and funny. At first glance, Elle Reid appears to be an unreconstructed hippie with commitment phobia — the film opens with her dumping her adoring younger girlfriend (Judy Greer). Fully supportive of her granddaughter’s decision to terminate the pregnancy, Elle can’t put bank behind it because she’s paid off her debts, cut up her credit cards and turned them into a work of art. But, as we follow Elle and young Sage on their quest for cash — which leads them into Elle’s past and eventually to Sage’s formidable mom (Marcia Gay Harden) — we start seeing more sides of Grandma. What initially seemed like a one-note Grumpy Old

Jez Butterworth, effectively compresses a potentially unwieldy span of time (the ’70s through the ’90s), and it does not suffer from a paucity of killer lines. Early on, Bulger offers fatherly advice to his son, who’s been punished at school for punching a classmate. He explains that he didn’t get into trouble because he hit the kid, but because he hit him in front of other people. “If nobody sees it,” Bulger explains, “it didn’t happen.” Unbelievably, everything in Black Mass did happen. It’s a hell of a movie. You should see it.

Tomlin gets full mileage out of her curmudgeonly lines, and she and Garner have such great comic chemistry that it’s easy to overlook the thinness of Sage’s character. Garner and Nat Wolff (who plays the baby daddy) are stellar young actors limited by the script’s dim view of their generation, which matches Elle’s. When Elle quizzes Sage on The Feminine Mystique, the teen thinks she’s talking about an X-Men character — a funny joke, but a too-easy one, barely scratching the surface of the generational divide.

As the third link in the bloodline, Judy, Harden initially seems like even more of a caricature — a coiffured gorgon of a yuppie who terrorizes her secretary from a treadmill desk. But the longer she’s on-screen, the more human Judy becomes in her pent-up exasperation with her mother and daughter. (And, after all, she has a point — someone has to earn the bacon.) There’s more potential in these characters and their conflicts than Grandma has time to explore. Despite the neat containment of its plot within a single day, the film often feels less like a feature than the tantalizing pilot for an Amazon or Netflix series. Over the course of a career that started with American Pie, Weitz has made both good comedies tinged with sentiment (About a Boy) and bad ones (Little Fockers). Now, perhaps, the brightest future for his chosen subgenre is on the small screen. Grandma hits familiar story beats and doesn’t offer much to satisfy the eye — but, like Tomlin, it also keeps on offering sly subversions of expectation. Using a sharptongued elder to “speak truth to” a vapid younger generation is an ancient comedy trope. Giving that elder a withering awareness of her own limitations, less so. And uniting two generations in a plotline that Hollywood generally doesn’t deem appropriate unless it leads to a last-second change of heart — that’s just brave. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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new in theaters 90 miNUtES iN HEAVEN: hayden christensen plays a car-crash survivor who claims to have seen heaven during his near-death experience in this drama based on don Piper’s memoir. with Kate bosworth and dwight yoakam. Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer) directed. (121 min, Pg-13. Essex) tHE gREEN iNFERNo: Student activists travel to the amazon rainforest to save it. turns out they’re the ones who need saving in this campy-looking horror flick from Eli Roth (Hostel). lorenza Izzo, ariel levy and aaron burns star. (100 min, R. Essex, Majestic) tHE iNtERN: a 70-year-old widower (Robert de niro) interns for a young whippersnapper of an online fashion mogul (anne hathaway), and hilarity ensues — in theory, anyway. with Rene Russo. nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated) directed. (121 min, Pg-13. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset) HotEl tRANSYlVANiA 2: adam Sandler once again voices dracula in this animated family monster goof, in which the vampire patriarch grapples with raising his half-human grandson. with the voices of andy Samberg and Selena gomez. genndy tartakovsky again directed. (89 min, Pg. bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, welden) tHE mANHAttAN SHoRt Film FEStiVAl: after watching this curated showcase of 10 short films from around the world, audiences can vote for their favorite. More info at manhattanshort.com. (Running time n/a, nR. Roxy) pAWN SAcRiFicE: tobey Maguire plays chess prodigy bobby fischer in director Edward Zwick’s account of his historic match during the cold war. with liev Schreiber (as opponent boris Spassky), Peter Sarsgaard and lily Rabe. (114 min, Pg-13. Roxy, Savoy)

now playing ANt-mANHH The latest Marvel movie brings us Paul Rudd as a con man recruited to save the world in the guise of … an ant-size superhero. (117 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/22)

gRANDmAHHHH a fiercely independent poet (lily tomlin) takes a road trip with her pregnant teenage granddaughter (Julia garner) to seek cash for an abortion in this offbeat indie comedy from writer-director Paul weitz (Admission). with Marcia gay harden, nat wolff and Judy greer. (79 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 9/23) HitmAN: AgENt 47H1/2 a genetically engineered killing machine (Rupert friend) must take down a sinister corporation with plans to create an army of assassins just like him — only deadlier. (96 min, R)

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mERUHHHH Outdoor adventurers, whet your appetite for the forthcoming Everest with this documentary about three climbers gunning for a daunting, potentially deadly Indian peak. Jimmy chin and Elizabeth chai Vasarhelyi directed. (87 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 9/16) miNioNSHH young viewers of Despicable Me and its sequel liked the supervillain hero but loved his gibberish-spouting minions. So hollywood gave the kids what they craved. (91 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 7/15) miSSioN: impoSSiBlE RogUE NAtioNHHH1/2 christopher McQuarrie assumes directorial duties for the latest installment of the over-the-top action franchise. (131 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 8/5)

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miStRESS AmERicAHHHH1/2 noah baumbach and greta gerwig (Frances Ha) teamed up again to write this comedy about a new yorker (gerwig) who pulls her lonely stepsister-to-be (lola Kirke) into her madcap, improvised life in the big city. baumbach directed. (84 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 9/9)

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cAptiVEHH a violent fugitive from the law (david Oyelowo) takes a single mother (Kate Mara) hostage in her home in this drama based on ashley Smith’s memoir Unlikely Angel. Jerry Jameson directed. (97 min, Pg-13)

EVERESt: a snowstorm on the world’s highest mountain sends climbers into chaos in this disaster drama based on the events of May 10 and 11, 1996, also chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. Jason clarke, Josh brolin, ang Phula Sherpa and Jake gyllenhaal star. baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns) directed. (121 min, Pg-13. now in wide release: bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe)

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The Visit

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

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

wednesday 23 — thursday 24 Black Mass Captive Inside Out Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Minions Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation The Perfect Guy Shaun the Sheep Movie Straight Outta Compton Trainwreck The Visit A Walk in the Woods friday 25 — thursday 1 Black Mass Captive Everest (2D & 3D) *The Green Inferno *Hotel Transylvania 2 (2D & 3D) *The Intern Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials The Visit A Walk in the Woods

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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 Black Mass Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Minions Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Mr. Holmes **National Theatre Live: The Beaux’ Stratagem (Thu only) Shaun the Sheep Movie Straight Outta Compton **TCM Presents: Psycho (Wed only) Trainwreck The Visit A Walk in the Woods friday 25 — thursday 1 Black Mass Everest (2D & 3D) *Hotel Transylvania 2 (2D & 3D) *The Intern **The Iron Giant: Signature Edition (Wed only) **Just Let Go: A Night of Forgiveness (Mon only) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials **Roger Waters: The Wall (Tue only) The Visit A Walk in the Woods

Grandma Meru friday 25 — thursday 1 Grandma *Pawn Sacrifice

StowE ciNEmA 3 plEX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678. stowecinema.com

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104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

wednesday 23 — thursday 24 Black Mass Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials A Walk in the Woods friday 25 — thursday 1 Black Mass *Hotel Transylvania 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

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tHE pERFEct GUYHH A professional woman (Sanaa Lathan) has a rebound relationship that turns from exciting to creepy in this thriller from director David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot). With Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut and Rutina Wesley. (100 min, PG-13)

tRAiNWREcKHHH1/2 Amy Schumer plays a commitment-phobe who finds her distaste for monogamy shaken by a new dude in this comedy from Judd Apatow. (125 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/22)

piXElSH1/2 Middle-aged geeks are the only ones who can save the Earth in this action comedy starring Adam Sandler. (105 min, PG-13)

tHE ViSitH1/2 Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan returns with this found-footage horror-comedy in which a single mom makes a questionable decision to send her kids to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. With Kathryn Hahn and Olivia DeJonge. (94 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 9/16)

pHoENiXHHHH1/2 In postwar Berlin, a wounded Holocaust survivor (Nina Hoss) gets facial-reconstruction surgery, which proves to be the perfect disguise to find out if her husband betrayed her to the Nazis. (98 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 8/26)

A WAlK iN tHE WooDSHH1/2 Robert Redford plays travel writer Bill Bryson in this adaptation of his comic memoir about walking the Appalachian Trail with a friend (Nick Nolte). Ken Kwapis (He’s Just Not That Into You) directed. (104 min, R)

RicKi AND tHE FlASHHHH1/2 Meryl Streep plays an aging rocker who tries to mend fences with the family she abandoned in this comedy-drama directed by Jonathan Demme and scripted by Diablo Cody (Juno). (102 min, PG-13)

WAR RoomH1/2 A seemingly perfect family has problems that only prayer can address in this inspirational drama from director Alex Kendrick (Fireproof). Priscilla C. Shirer and T.C. Stallings star. (120 min, PG)

SHAUN tHE SHEEp moViEHHHH Aardman Animations (“Wallace and Gromit”) brings us the comic adventure of a punchy barnyard denizen whose attempt to get a day off leaves his farmer stranded in the big city. (85 min, PG) StRAiGHt oUttA comptoNHHH1/2 This biopic chronicles the origins of hip-hop group NWA and their rise in the late 1980s from the streets of Compton to global fame. (147 min, R)

now on video pitcH pERFEct 2HH1/2 The motley, mishap-prone college a cappella group from the 2012 comedy hit returns — and this time they must redeem themselves by winning a daunting international competition. (115 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 5/20)

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Fascinated by sensitive geniuses with problems? Tobey Maguire plays chess prodigy Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice, director Edward Zwick's account of his historic match during the Cold War, which starts this Friday at Merrill's Roxy Cinemas in Burlington and the Savoy Theater in Montpelier. offbeat Flick of the Week: We pick an indie, foreign, cultish or just plain odd movie that hits local theaters, dvd or video on demand this week. if you want an alternative to the blockbusters, try this!

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