Author Angela Burke Kunkel Visits Inklings!
2024-08-17 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Inklings Children’s Books, 106 Mad River Greeen, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Inklings is excited to welcome Vermont author Angela Burke Kunkel on Saturday, August 17th at 10am for a reading of her brand new book, WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL.
This beautiful, lyrical picture book details the life and art of celebrated children’s book creator and two-time Caldecott Medalist, Barbara Cooney. Her character Miss Rumphius said, “You must do something to make the world more beautiful.” And that is exactly what Barbara did.
Following the reading, there will be a watercolor flower craft for the children!!
Angela Burke Kunkel is also the author of “Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built,” an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book and winner of both the Américas Award and International Latino Book Award.

Bread and Puppet presents: The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show
2024-08-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
Bread & Puppet kicks off its 2024 Summer Season with a new performance, The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show, created by Peter Schumann and company along with a cohort of spring apprentices. The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show runs Sundays June 9th-July 7th at 3 p.m. in the Papier Maché Cathedral at the Bread and Puppet farm, 753 Heights Rd, Glover, VT.
About this show Peter Schumann says, “We, the Whole Kit & Caboodle bread bakers, peace and harmony terrorists and criminal trespassers of the fascist empire offer anti-hospital-bombing calisthenics in the face of the Freedom and Democracy Bullshitters, and precise funeral rites for the collapsing Western Civilization and make our divine paper maché weaponry, as retrieved from the cardboard industry’s available refuse to defeat the capitalist hegemony and celebrate a brand-new humanity with appropriate victory dances and demonstrate our birthright as children of the one and only Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us and now requires our full undivided attention.”
Bread and Puppet’s Cheap Art – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale in the Bread & Puppet Museum Store throughout the event.
Tickets for this and other summer shows are $10 each. We ask that you purchase tickets ahead of time. However, it’s central to our philosophy that our performances are as accessible as possible and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Admission by cash donation for kids 6 and under. You can purchase tickets on our website at https://breadandpuppet.org/book-tickets-for-upcoming-shows
The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show plays Sunday afternoons June 9th through July 7th at 3 p.m.. The Principle of Hope Circus plays at 3 p.m. (sideshows at 2 p.m.) every Saturday and Sunday July 13th through August 31st. All shows at the Bread & Puppet Farm, 753 Heights Rd/Rt. 122 in Glover, VT.

Bread & Puppet Theater Presents: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus and Gaza Grey Lady Cantata
2024-08-17 15:00 - 17:30 | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
Bread & Puppet presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band will make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.
This year The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus will be performed in our outdoor amphitheater each Saturday and Sunday.
The Saturday circus will be followed by a performance of Gaza Gray Lady Cantata. Each Saturday, July 13th – August 31st at 3pm.
The Sunday circus will be followed by our traditional, large-scale outdoor pageant, a giant spectacle in the surrounding landscape. Each Sunday, July 14th through August 25th at 3pm.
*Please come early to allow time for parking and to enjoy side shows, beginning at 2pm.
All shows at The Bread & Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd. Glover, VT
Tickets for all summer shows are $10 each. Each ticket is for all performances on a given day. We ask that you purchase tickets ahead of time. However, it’s central to our philosophy that our performances are as accessible as possible and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Admission by cash donation for kids 6 and under. You can purchase tickets on our website at: https://breadandpuppet.org/book-tickets-for-upcoming-shows
Cheap Art: On all performance days Bread and Puppet’s Cheap Art – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale in the Bread & Puppet Museum Store and in the Circus Field.
A bit more about our shows: Bread & Puppet’s founder and director, Peter Schumann, describes The Beginning After The End of Humanity Circus: “After the appropriate death dances for the burial of the empire-of-horror and it’s horrified humanity and after the screaming-trees-choir teaches earthlings how to scream against the daily atrocities, the new underneath-all-of-this humanity emerges from under the rubble, whose voices must make the new language that the new humanity needs.”
In the late 60’s through the mid 1970’s, Peter Schumann created a series of shows in response to the Vietnam war called “The Gray Lady Cantatas”. The shows featured the iconic gray lady puppets moving through vignettes both dreamlike and brutal. This new version, Gaza Gray Lady Cantata, was created and co-directed this spring by father-daughter team Peter and Maria Schumann. It uses texts from Palestinians living through the war in Gaza, and, like the older versions of the show, is a meditation on grief, war, and resistance.
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Background Information about Bread and Puppet:
Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater style of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard. Founded in 1963 by Peter and Elka Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s.

Pocock Rocks Music Festival & Street Fair
2024-08-17 15:00 - 20:00 | Main Street, Bristol, Main Street, Bristol, Vermont, 05443, United States
Pocock Rocks Music Festival & Street Fair is Bristol’s annual celebration of local musicians, artisans, crafters, food producers, and beverage makers. This awesome event is set in the Gateway to the Green Mountains and is FREE for all! Come dance, eat, shop, and play in Bristol for the day. Line up: The Barncasters, BodenBender, Organized Dead, Tom Bisson & The Rustics, Soulstice, Jeremy Mendicino

the Susan Ursprung Band
2024-08-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Farmsprung Gatherings, 2692 East Warren Road, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Join us for a FREE pop-up performance in Stowell Barn! Farmsprung Gatherings is excited to host the Susan Ursprung Band for a family-friendly evening of all original, live music that’s not to be missed.
Eclectic seating is available, or you can bring your own chair. Please reserve tickets through our website so we can plan ahead.
Doors open at 6:30, music starts at 7 PM.
Light refreshments provided, optional BYOB (keep it family friendly!)
About the Artists:
Susan Ursprung is lauded by Chris Lunn in the Ancient Victory News as
“…a very capable singer-songwriter [with] a clear, bright vocal. …Those who love Claudia Schmidt, Kat Eggleston, or the Go Janes will walk on familiar ground with her.. Singers might mine her hundreds of original songs from the performances and recordings. She is that good and diverse.”
The band joining Susan in Vermont includes the talented Audie Bridges on guitar, Sam Bridges on upright bass, and Steve Tapper on flute and woodwinds.
About the Venue:
Parking on the grass as marked, porta-let available on site
Please note that although we have a ramp to make our barn accessible, guests will be navigating from grassy area parking that may be challenging for wheelchairs. Let us know in advance and we will do our best to accommodate you! The porta-let is unfortunately not accessible.
Admission is FREE but contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated—contribute through our website, Venmo (@farmpsrungvt), or in person at the performance. Any size contribution helps us make future public gatherings possible!
Questions about the event? Reach out via email: farmsprungvt@gmail.com

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
2024-08-17 20:00 - 2024-08-18 21:00 | Edgcomb Barn, 970 Dump Rd, Warren, Vermont, Warren, United States
A two-act masterwork, this heralded piece features Warren’s own Pamela Rickard in Beckett’s greatest female role. Absurdist theater with a dash of dark humor.
