The Mad River Valley Village

Stark’s Pub After Dark
2024-08-24 20:30 - 23:30 (America/New_York)
AFTER DARK SUMMER MUSIC SERIES
The “After Dark” summer music series is a new late-night music series that will feature a different band each month over the summer.
The After Dark shows are free and open to anyone 21 years of age or older.
Thanks to our sponsor Forbin’s Finest for keeping the vibe high and the late night tunes elevated.

AFTER DARK MUSIC SCHEDULE:
06/28 Seth Yacovone Band
08/24 Bad Management
09/27 Nicholas Cassarino and Friends

Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler
2024-08-24 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-08-23 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-08-22 20:00 - 2024-08-24 21:30 | Edgcomb Barn, 970 Dump Rd, Warren, Vermont, Warren, United States
Acclaimed director Joanne Greenberg returns to the Barn with an edgy but comic drama that explores the intersection of motherhood, female friendship and class.

Bread & Puppet Theater Presents: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus and Gaza Grey Lady Cantata
2024-08-24 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.

Bread and Puppet presents: The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show
2024-08-24 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.

Music in the Courtyard
2024-08-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Allyn’s Lodge, 102 Forest Drive Warren, VT 05674
Music in the Lincoln Peak Courtyard all summer long! Stay tuned for artist information!

Stretch & Sip Yoga
2024-08-24 11:00 - 12:30 | The Featherbed Inn, Waitsfield, VT, 5864 Main St, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Make the most of your Saturday with a fun and refreshing outdoor experience incorporating gentle, yoga-based movement at a mindful pace, plus tea (iced or hot) and scones, and a dip in the pond if it pleases. Join Karen of Salt & Sand Studios and Karen & Mick of the Featherbed Inn for this unique, al fresco, weekly seasonal event in a gorgeous landscape.
For locals, visitors, 16 YO and up who’d like to start winding down their day with gentle mindful yoga-based movement followed by refreshments and connection with like-minded people.
If you prefer something other than tea to drink please feel free to BYO. Bring a swimsuit or swim in your yoga clothes for extra refreshment.

Volunteer Mountain Work Day
2024-08-24 09:00 - 16:00
Volunteer Mountain Work Days will once again utilize pre-registration and limit the total group size. Space is extremely limited, don’t wait, register online!
Events will be confirmed by 6:00 pm the day prior via the contact email provided. A wait list will be maintained with open slots filled by 6:00 pm the day prior.
Any minors that register must be at least 12 years of age, accompanied by their legal guardian/parent throughout the day, no dogs or swinging tools (hatchet, axe, maul) are allowed.

General information: The purpose of Volunteer Mountain Work Days is the maintenance of MRG’s legendary tree skiing and regeneration zones in our mountain forest. This involves cutting lines as well as setting aside areas for new trees to grow. Everything is done with hand tools. Work days are organized and led by Lars Bruns in consultation with ski area management. Volunteer Mountain Work Days are a great chance to get out on the mountain, care for your favorite terrain, and learn about how northeastern mountain forests grow. It is hard work, but also fun and satisfying to see a ski line take shape, and how trees will grow in response to care.
We welcome both experienced veterans and newcomers to the mountain work days. Each person who works a full day receives a complimentary day pass voucher for each day she or he works.
Summer/Fall 2024 Schedule

August 24th
September 21st
September 28th
October 26th

Logistics

Report at 9:00 am at the Cricket Club picnic table. We’re back down at 3:30 – 4:00 pm.
Most of the time we hike from the base, so be physically fit and prepared to hike the mountain top to bottom.
Most days are held rain or shine – Working in the rain is fun!
Bring work gloves, hiking boots, drinks & lunch.
Loppers are the most useful tool to bring. Make sure they are in good working order.
Work days navigate our gnarly terrain; no dogs or kids under 12 please. Minors under the age of 18 must register and be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

The incidence of Lyme Disease is increasing rapidly in Vermont. This disease is debilitating and hard to get rid of. More Info on how to protect yourself while thrashing around the woods of Stark Mountain.
The following tools are not allowed: All power tools such as chain saws, and swinging tools such as hatchets or axes.
Outfitting for Rain Events:

Outer layer – The primary function is to hold in heat, as well as keep water out for as long as possible.

Goretex shell or other rainwear
Waterproof pant shell – old ski pants work well
Waterproof gaiters (Goretex)
Waterproof boots beforehand
Brimmed synthetic hat and fleece hat
If the weather is warm, then staying warm is not a problem. Fast-drying shorts, gaiters, and a rain shell may be sufficient.

Inner layers – No cotton – must keep one warm when wet.

Wool or synthetic shirt and long underwear
Fleece
Wool socks
Thin windbreaker underneath the shell to hold even more heat in

Other Tips

Put dry (synthetic) clothing in a garbage bag
Bring a second synthetic inner layer shirt (in the garbage bag) to change into at lunch
Put first aid kit in a waterproof bag
A thermos of hot tea or soup. Caffeine constricts capillaries and should be avoided
Bring backup gloves. Cold hands will not warm up in wet gloves

2024 Mad Hatter Ultimate Tournament
2024-08-24 00:00 - 23:59 | Brooks Field – Warren Elementary School, 296 School Rd, Warren, VT, 05674, United States
2024 MAD HATTER, Saturday, August 24, 2024, Warren, VT
Sign up Now!!!
All ability levels welcome!
Benefitting:
People’s Health & Wellness Clinic (https://www.phwcvt.org/)
Sign in: Saturday, August 24, 2024, 9 to 10 AM
(You must also sign in at the fields on August 24th by 10 AM to be placed on a team!)
Drafting of teams from the “hats”: 10 AM
Games Begin: 10:30 AM
At least 3 games per team until about 4 PM.
All ability levels welcome from high school to seniors!
Mad Hatter Rule: To encourage inclusivity on the field, we’ll play with the Mad Hatter Rule: “An all-touch possession ending in a score can be counted as two points, if the defensive team acknowledges the all-touch score. A contested all-touch score is just one point.”
Discs!
Mad River Disc 175g Discraft Ultrastars for sale $20 each with proceeds benefiting People’s Health and Wellness Clinic!
Registration fee:
$25 per player if you register before midnight on August 16,
$30 after August 16,
Pay at the fields on August 24.
Included:
Up to 102 players get a Mad Hatter T-shirt in the color of the team your drafted to.
4 or 6 teams and up to three fields guarantees at least 3 back-to-back games per team.
Tournament fruit and bagels, a spirit disc to give away, and water for each team.
Questions?
Contact Andy:
andymac@together.net
802.388.8376 (h)
802.989.5409 (c) day of tourney
Huck it if you can!

Mini-Mural Workshop
2024-08-23 15:00 - 2024-08-24 18:00 | Corner School Resource Center of Granville Vermont, 75 Post Office Hill 75 Post Office Hill, Granville, Vermont, 05747, United States
A two day workshop for adults with Granville based muralist and textile artist Meg Reinhold.
Meg draws inspiration from herbalism, folklore and traditional textile practices. Her workshop combines insight into the design process, the history of Vermont barn quilts, and looking at plants through the eyes of a botanist-artist.
Guided by Meg, each participant paints a 2 foot x 2 foot mini-mural inspired by quilts and local flora. Everyone leaves with a decoratively painted plywood panel of their own design to install outdoors or inside their homes.
Quilting, gardening, and arts enthusiasts, this is the workshop for you! Space is limited so sign up today! 16 years old and up. All materials provided. Sponsored in part by Vermont Humanities, the workshop is FREE though donations are always welcome.
