Stardust
2025-08-21 08:00 - 2025-10-31 17:00 (America/New_York) | Mad River Valley Arts, 5031 Main Street #2 Village Square, Waitsfield, 05673
The Mad Collective is proud to share ‘Stardust’, an exhibition about The Quantum World.
The Quantum World is one of uncertainty. One can’t really talk about where a quantum object is, we can only talk about where we might find it. Yet, our seemingly solid reality is built upon this tiny world of possibilities, stuff has form, the universe has form and we are solid.
This show looks at the behavior of photons, particles and mysterious patterns of quantum phenomena. It inspires us to think about the magic of the quantum fundamental basis to reality and asks us to be curious about where the human species is going. Artists open up to their interpretation of the immaterial while engaging with the scales of the unimaginable tiny to the infinitely large.

35th Annual Green Mountain Photo Show
2025-09-07 13:00 - 2025-10-12 20:30 | Mad River Valley Arts, 5031 Main Street #2 Village Square, Waitsfield, 05673
Photographs ranging from black and white to color and from realism to abstract are featured in this popular annual show.
The spacious galleries, located in the historic Red Barn, are the perfect venue for viewing the large format photographs and small intimate images that reflect the diverse contemporary practices of both amateur and professional photographers. The show is especially appealing to children who search out diverse subjects such as animals, birds and flowers. Assorted subject matter and conceptual experimentation are continuing to enter the foreground of the Vermont vernacular to show the ever-evolving nature of photography with new technologies and formats along with technical manipulation.
This exhibition is grounded in the Valley community and continues to inspire all who visit during the leaf-peeping season.

Made in the Mountains Art Show
2025-09-07 14:00 - 2025-09-28 16:00 | Corner School Resource Center of Granville Vermont, 75 Post Office Hill 75 Post Office Hill, Granville, Vermont, 05747, United States
The Third Made in the Mountains Art Show features oils, watercolors, mosaics, blown glass, mixed media and photography created by artists in the from the Green Mountains including the Mad River Valley and White River Valley.
Meet them at the Opening Reception on September 7!

Valley- Wide Book Club Cocktail Hour to Benefit Big Pict Arts Hub
2025-09-18 17:00 - 21:00 | Big Picture Theater, 44 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, 05673
Join New York Times Best Selling Author James M. Tabor as he chats with Mary Kathleen Mehuron about her gripping novel Down on the South Beach Drag– and more exciting Jersey Shore moments!
Stay for part or all.

Fall Toddler Time Art Class at Inklings!
2025-09-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Inklings Children’s Books, 106 Mad River Greeen, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
It’s Fall Toddler Time Art Class at Inklings Children’s Books! Friday mornings from 10am – 11am.
Caregivers and their little ones are invited to explore the colors & shapes of the season, and develop those fine motor skills; all while having some creative fun!
Activities will include painting on torn newspaper, craft pumpkins, and colorful watercolor felt leaves.
SIGN UP using the EVENT LINK
Begins Friday, Sept. 5th and goes for 6 weeks.
Ages: 18mo – 4yrs
Price: $85 (all six classes) Drop-in Price: $15/per class

We Are MRV Film Screening of Join or Die
2025-09-19 17:30 - 20:30 | Big Picture Theater, 44 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, 05673
We Are MRV will begin with a screening of the Netflix documentary Join or Die, a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it.
We’ll start with appetizers and drinks at 5:30, screen the film at 6:00, and continue with a discussion and happy hour.
Come connect with neighbors and friends and learn why it’s important (and fun) to do just that! Event is free but tickets are required. See the link below.

Book Signing w/ Award Winning Author & Filmmaker Stephen Vittoria
2025-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Bear Pond Books Stowe, 38 Main St, Stowe, Vermont, 05672, United States
Come meet author & filmmaker Stephen Vittoria!
Stephen will be at Bear Pond Books in Stowe from 1-3pm signing copies of his new novel CHRISTINA AND THE WHITEFISH.
This is truly a book that is needed in our dark times.
Dave Zirin of The Nation said: “Christina and the Whitefish is a joy to read. If Bruce Springsteen wrote fiction, it would read a great deal like this.
Stephen Vittoria is an award-winning filmmaker and author.
His last two feature documentaries—Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary and One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern—have been embraced by moviegoers and audiences worldwide.
Vittoria was also a producer on two feature documentaries by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney: Gonzo: The Life & Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place. Along with journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, Vittoria co-authored the three-book nonfiction series Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny—with forewords by Angela Davis, S. Brian Willson, and Chris Hedges.
Vittoria is the founder and creative director of two Southern California production companies: Street Legal Cinema and Deep Image.
Regarding Vittoria as a storyteller, legendary filmmaker, Albert Maysles, publicly petitioned his colleagues in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to consider Vittoria’s documentary feature, Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary, for Oscar consideration.
The Book:
It’s 1994. Christina, a young Gulf War veteran struggling with PTSD and the loss of both parents, drives cross-country in a borrowed car, desperately seeking relief and redemption in Asbury Park, the seaside mecca of her childhood. It’s a place well past its prime and reigned over by the self-proclaimed King of Asbury Park: The Whitefish—a disabled Vietnam vet, tavern owner, artist, and philosopher. It’s here, on the Jersey shore, that a chance meeting leads to a profound and life-altering connection. Rewind to the eighties: two girls, best friends, falling in love was something to be kept secret.
Reaching adulthood, Christina and Jaime move to Las Vegas to escape prejudice and build a new life. Unable to cope with her parents’ deaths and convinced she’s doing the right thing for herself and her country, Christina enlists in the U.S. Army, only to find herself racked by a further and compounding wartime trauma. Christina and the Whitefish is a powerful novel that questions the conventional treatment and care methods veterans receive in an inadequate, pharmaceutical-driven system, bringing to light just how critical human connection is to wellbeing and survival.
“Christina and the Whitefish” asks tough questions about how to love and when to leave, questions that reveal a critical truth: family can be birthed from circumstance. And then, even in the pain and the stumbling, if you don’t give up—keep seeking and moving toward something better—friends and healing will find you—and love, no matter how battered, can endure even the darkest of times.

Feast of Fools Community Festival
2025-09-21 11:00 - 17:00 | Camp Meade, 961 ROUTE 2, middlesex, 05602
Celebrate Vermont’s vibrant arts scene at this preview Feast of Fools Community Festival, happening Sunday, Sept. 21 at Camp Meade in Middlesex. This one-day celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and offers a lively taste of what’s to come when the full Feast of Fools Festival launches in 2026.
The Feast of Fools began in medieval Europe as a day of revelry when commoners became kings, fools became prophets, and music, laughter, and food united communities. In that tradition, Camp Meade will come alive with circus, music, food, and community gathering.
Highlights include:
Middlesex Artisan Market – 11:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. featuring quality local creators
The Red Trouser Show – internationally renowned circus stars performing at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.
The Hokum Brothers – Vermont’s own fun-loving band playing two sets at noon and 2:00 p.m.
Brass Balagan – raucous street brass at 4:00 p.m.
Montpelier Alive’s New Resident Mixer – 3:00–5:00 p.m.
ONE Arts – face-painting and creative projects for all ages, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
And because no “feast” is complete without food: vendors including Woodbelly Pizza (12:00–5:00 p.m.) and The Local Wine & Beer (12:00–5:00 p.m.) will keep the crowd well-fed and happy.
“The Feast of Fools has always been about joy, resilience, and community,” says festival founder Woody Keppel. “This preview is just the beginning—a playful promise of the full festival to come.”
Suggested donation: Adults $10, Kids $5
No one turned away for lack of funds!

Bread and Puppet presents: Autumn Screams and Possibilitarian Hallelujahs of the Servants of the Abyss
2025-09-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
September 14th, 21st and 28th at 3 p.m.
Join us in the Paper Maché Cathedral for a brand new, urgently-needed puppet show. Keeping the work up-to-the-minute, the show will evolve over the course of the month.
In Peter Schumann’s words: “We the involuntary servants of the abyss, both: the wounded universe abyss and the abysmal empire abyss, are charged with the possibilitarian task of revolutionizing the human abyss – not to allow the empire’s rotten apples to spoil the Autumn’s applesauce, because of the invincible because! Because we children of mother dirt need to be nourished by real applesauce while spreading poppy flag wisdom throughout the hills and valleys of the here, not succumbing to empire normality. All our banners say Yes and kick the arse of the No and can’t be stopped from marching even when thunder and lightning threaten the day. Whether the weather is good or whether the weather is bad, whatever the weather we’ll weather the weather, whether we like it or not.”
Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds.
*Capacity is limited at our indoor shows*
https://breadandpuppet.org/product/september-show-9-14-25
Dogs are not permitted at our indoor performances.

Bread and Puppet presents: Autumn Screams and Possibilitarian Hallelujahs of the Servants of the Abyss
2025-09-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
September 14th, 21st and 28th at 3 p.m.
Join us in the Paper Maché Cathedral for a brand new, urgently-needed puppet show. Keeping the work up-to-the-minute, the show will evolve over the course of the month.
In Peter Schumann’s words: “We the involuntary servants of the abyss, both: the wounded universe abyss and the abysmal empire abyss, are charged with the possibilitarian task of revolutionizing the human abyss – not to allow the empire’s rotten apples to spoil the Autumn’s applesauce, because of the invincible because! Because we children of mother dirt need to be nourished by real applesauce while spreading poppy flag wisdom throughout the hills and valleys of the here, not succumbing to empire normality. All our banners say Yes and kick the arse of the No and can’t be stopped from marching even when thunder and lightning threaten the day. Whether the weather is good or whether the weather is bad, whatever the weather we’ll weather the weather, whether we like it or not.”
Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds.
*Capacity is limited at our indoor shows*
https://breadandpuppet.org/on-the-farm
Dogs are not permitted at our indoor performances.
