Wild Woogs Children’s Workshop!
2024-10-18 15:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Unnamed Venue, United States
Join Wild Woogs on Oct 18th, from 3:30-5:30pm, for a creative afternoon of gettin’ Woogy!
In this two hour workshop Natalie from Wild Woogs will be guiding kids to create their own Woog, made from socks, stuffing, felt, buttons, needles, thread, yarn , etc.! They will brainstorm together “Woog characteristics” (spikes? teeth? and more).
Kids will be introduced to light hand sewing techniques and creative ways to reuse old materials such as socks, fabric scraps etc. They will be encouraged to let their imaginations run wild!
This “woogshop” is recommended for kids 6 yrs and older. Kids need to be able to hold and cut with scissors on their own. (Parents are welcome to accompany their child if they think they will need help with that skill.)

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
2024-10-18 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-10-19 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-10-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Valley Players Theater, 4254 Main Street, Route 100, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Part murder mystery and part psychological thriller, this play is brimming with intrigue, sophisticated humor and surprising twists. After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. A police detective (Ray Merrill, Montpelier) arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house (Sarah McDougal, Warren, and Wes Olds, Graniteville); a spinster with a curious background (Karin Stevenson, Essex); an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef (Paul Cavaliere, Montpelier); a retired Army major (Brent Adams, Warren); a strange man who claims his car has overturned in a drift (Aric Brown, Middlesex); and a former judge who makes life miserable for everyone (Marci Robinson, Warren). It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate.
The play is directed by Ruth Ann Pattee (Fayston) with assistance from Stage Manager Joanne Puente (Worchester). Set design is also by Pattee, with Doug Bergstein (Waitsfield) as set build crew chief. The lighting and sound design is by Jasper Mayone (Waitsfield) with assistance from Irene Halibozek (Williston).

Wild Pink
2024-10-19 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-22 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-23 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-24 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-25 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-29 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-30 13:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date | Festival Gallery at Valley Arts, 5031 Main Street,, Waitsfield, 05673
WILD PINK is a group show about the natural and cultural relationship of the ancient color PINK. There is certainly no dearth of pink in the natural world or in human culture. We accessorize, cosmeticize, gender-ize and interiorize to the point of being ‘tickled pink’. In the animal and floral world pink as hue and shade exists multifold. Whether to shock, protest or code the millennials, pink has survived the test of time. This show examines the fluid origins of PINK in ‘natural’ and/or ‘cultural’ contexts. This is open media, interdisciplinary, multimedia, installation, all contemporary crafts and design arts in two/three dimensions for the wall and floor.
Reception & Artist talks: Sept. 26th, 5-7pm

Pianist Claire Black: “Forests & Fairy Tales”
2024-10-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Christ Episcopal Church, 64 State Street, Montpelier, VT, 05602, United States
Pianist Claire Black creates a musical space for imagination and reflection with works by Schumann, Korngold, Janáček, and Bortkiewicz. Evocative titles depict ancient myths, wilderness and weather, flora and fauna. Listeners are invited to receive this imagery–through the distinct sound world of each composer represented–for what it is, and for what it might symbolize.
Suggested Donations: Adults $25 / Kids $5
Half of all audience donations will go to Christ Episcopal Church to assist with the cost of their newly acquired Yamaha piano.

Cookbook Club
2024-10-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Warren Public Library, 413 Main Street, Warren, 05674
In honor of the release of Ina Garten’s new memoir, this month’s Warren Public Library cookbook club will highlight recipes from Ina’s books. Choose any Ina Garten recipe to prepare and bring to the library for a potluck dinner. Several of her cookbooks are on display at the library to browse.
Register online at warrenlibrary.com or in person at the library.

Dinner with Katherine Arden at Inklings Children’s Books!
2024-10-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Unnamed Venue, United States
Join New York Times bestselling author, Katherine Arden, for a reading from her acclaimed middle grade book, “Small Spaces.” Following the reading, Katherine will answer questions from children. She’ll also share her insight into the writing process – How does a writer develop a character? How do you draw on your surroundings for inspiration? – all while enjoying food from American Flatbread!!
Registration is FREE. Only 20 seats are available. Please RSVP at inklingschildrensbooks.com
PRE ORDER “Small Spaces” in advance using the event URL!!

Valley Gone Madder
2024-10-25 20:00 | After Thoughts, 8 VT 17, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673, United States
Please Join us at afterthoughts, above Valley Meade Dispensary for an amazing Halloween Party. Our theme this year is sinister Carnival / Circus, so get your best killer carni-wear ready to go.
We will have special guests back by popular demand for live music… Running in Circles. The evening will be hosted by the amazing Mister Burns and he might even bless us with some of his lyrical mastery. Tickets are $20 Pre-sale and $25 at the door if tickets remain.
The event is possible by a few fantastic sponsors including our Platinum Sponsor for the evening Jimmy Green Grass. As always, all of our sponsors are vital in keeping our events affordable. Special thanks to The Clean Cannabis Company, Simple, Forbins Finest and the Mad Taco. All of these sponsors are amazing contributors to Valley Meade and the events we put on. Please support these guys at Valley Meade and through out Vermont.

3rd annual Musical Munchkins Halloween concert
2024-10-30 15:45 - 16:45 | Waitsfield United Church of Christ Village Meeting House, 4335 Main St, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Join Miss Andrea of Musical Munchkins for the Joslin Memorial Library’s 3rd annual HALLOWEEN CONCERT event for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, first-graders & their families. All ages welcome
COME IN COSTUME- for an interactive hour of Halloween Music, dance, songs, stories, puppets and instruments

Author / Illustrator Jason Chin Visits Inklings Children’s Books!
2024-11-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Inklings Children’s Books, 106 Mad River Greeen, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Inklings is so excited to welcome author/illustrator and Caldecott medalist, Jason Chin on Saturday, November 2nd at 10am!
Jason will be sharing LIFE AFTER WHALE, which follows a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish.
Following the reading, Jason will do an illustration demonstration for the children!!

Album Release Concert
2024-11-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Join us for an intimate living-room performance by multi-instrumentalist Raphael Groten and violinist Rebecca Kodis as they share songs from their new CD, Unity—a musical prayer for healing. We’ll gather in the Common House of LTA’s co-housing village for this cozy event!
Unity began in 2020, when Raphael met Rebecca while playing a kirtan with a mutual friend. As their friendship and partnership grew, so did the repertoire found on this album. With ten songs offered as a healing balm for the world, Unity is Raphael and Rebecca’s prayer for this time.
Returning to Imaginary Road Studios to work with Will Ackerman and Tom Eaton, Raphael brought Rebecca and captured an album of heart-opening, soul-soothing music. Unity features Raphael’s nylon string guitar and flutes accompanied by Rebecca’s angelic violin. Rebecca’s violin shines, enriched at times with multiple layers creating an orchestral quality listeners have yet to hear in Raphael’s music. The additional highlights of Eugene Friesen on cello, Michael Manring on fretless bass and Will Ackerman’s timeless guitar weave seamlessly with the meditative and visionary qualities of this recording.

Dolls in My Pocket
2024-11-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Big Picture Theater, 44 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, 05673
Ghosts, witches, and dolls, oh my! A perfect Day of the Dead offering. Keryn Nightingale’s multimedia shows have delighted Phantom audiences for years. Don’t miss her latest – a story of generational trauma wrapped up in a Russian folktale!

Pianist Claire Black: “Forests & Fairy Tales”
2024-11-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge St., Richmond, Vermont, 05488, United States
Pianist Claire Black creates a musical space for imagination and reflection with works by Schumann, Korngold, Janáček, and Bortkiewicz. Evocative titles depict ancient myths, wilderness and weather, flora and fauna. Listeners are invited to receive this imagery–through the distinct sound world of each composer represented–for what it is, and for what it might symbolize.
Suggested Donations: Adults $25 / Kids $5

Vermont Reads “Gather” Hike
2024-11-03 01:00 - 03:00 | Moretown Town Forest, School Street, Waitsfield, Vermont, Moretown, United States
Join the Moretown Library and Friends of the Mad River for a foraging and survival skills hike led by experts Cory Stephenson and Luke Foley, celebrating the Vermont Reads program and their chosen title, “Gather” by Kenneth M. Cadow. The Vermont Reads program invites Vermont communities to plan projects and events centered around a novel and its themes. The chosen novel for 2024 is “Gather” and its themes of rural life, resilience, class differences, addiction, housing and food insecurity, a deep relationship to the land, and the power of community.

Write Your Novel Tuesdays
2024-11-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Old Stagecoach Inn, 18 N Main St., Waterbury, Vermont, 05676, United States
November brings NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month! For all you aspiring writers, join us Tuesday nights in November in our pub or parlor to work on your novel in a welcoming, community space. Get feedback and support from other writers, or just put your head down and write. And of course, our bar will be open to help get your creative juices flowing.
For more info about NaNoWriMo or to sign-up to officially participate in this monthlong challenge, check out their website https://nanowrimo.org/

Elemental
2024-11-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Mad River Valley Arts, 5031 Main Street #2 Village Square, Waitsfield, 05673
ELEMENTAL is a group art show that speaks to the subject of water and its soulful impact in our daily lives. The global water cycle has a significant grasp on the hold of human lives and all other species with rhythms that pass through soils, vegetation and rocks before its destination into the atmospheres. Waterways from raindrop to stream-flow transport carbon and nutrients much like the human circulatory system in order to sustain life on this planet. It goes without saying we are vulnerable to the forces of water in complex ways. While water can destroy our built environment if climate ‘changes’ reach peak levels, water can also be one of our elixir’s in life, offering wisdom and endless inspiration. Artists
in Elemental share the ethereal beauty of water and ask us to reflect upon our deep connection to this element of nature. Unusual materials and whimsical forms in their varying creative practices force the viewer to contemplate colors, textures, and emotions of imaginal waterscapes, and to evoke the connection between them through the balance between harmony and disharmonies, structure and chaos and the dance between light and shadow.

Pub Trivia with the MRV Libraries
2024-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Hostel Tevere, 203 Powderhound Rd, Warren, VT, 05674, United States
The MRV Libraries host their monthly session of pub trivia. Teams compete for prizes with four rounds of trivia inspired by a desire to make an escape and get away from it all. Call the restaurant at 802-496-9222 to reserve a table for a team.

Keep Up Good Courage (an original play)
2024-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Valley Players Theater, 4254 Main Street, Route 100, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
This play tells the story of MRV Union soldiers, through their correspondence with loved ones , of what happened during their nine month stay in Virginia from 1862-63. As they were looking forward to returning home in June, they were instead ordered to march North and found themselves engaged in an extraordinary battle. This story is a testament to the13th regiment who helped turn the tide of the war. The Songbird Project will provide musical accompaniment, with original and favorite Civil War era tunes.

Treasure Island
2024-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Hardwood Union, 458 VT RTE 100, Moretown, VT
Presented by Harwood Union Theater
Thursday, November 7-through-saturday, November 9
7 p.m. at the Harwood Union High School Theater

Tickets are $10 adults & $5 students
Limited Seating Available

AFROMAN
2024-11-08 20:00 - 23:00 | After Thoughts, 8 VT 17, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673, United States
DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!! This is going to be an amazing show at the newest venue located in the Mad River Valley, Afterthoughts. AFROMAN with Vermont’s own MISTER BURNS!!!!!! Anyone who has attended any of our shows knows the talent of Mister Burns, but this is going to be epic paired up with a hip hop icon.
Afroman is an incredible hip hop artist that puts on one of the best live performances that you will ever see. Afroman’s best-known song is the 2001 hit “Because I Got High”, which gained popularity through Napster, local radio play, a feature on Howard Stern’s radio show, and the ‘stoner’ movie ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ (and accompanying soundtrack). His other most popular song, “Crazy Rap”, is often referred to as “Colt 45” because of its lyric “Colt 45 and two Zig Zags”.Afroman is also fond of referencing his independence from record labels and the “corporate world” and cites himself as an example of how an artist can take recording and distribution into their own hands.
In 2014 Afroman became a spokesman for NORML and Weedmaps, remade “Because I Got High” in favor of legalization, and released the EP “One Hit Wonder” and concept album “The Frorider.” http://www.afromanmuzzicc.

The Collection’s Annual Toy Store Day Play Palooza
2024-11-09 10:00 - 16:00 | The Collection, 110 Mad River Green Shopping Center, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
Come Play With Us!
The Collection’s Annual Toy Store Day Playpalooza
Drop-in Event, join us for games, activities, toddler play area, free gift with purchase, secret discounts and so much more! Stop by the Waitsfield Elementary Ski and Skate sale, then join us for more family fun!
Free, rain or shine, for all ages. Come start your holiday shopping too! We are ready to help you find the perfect holiday gift and wrap it as well.
