The Mad River Valley Village

Waitsfield Development Review Board 2
2024-07-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Waitsfield Town Offices, 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The DRB meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, at 7:00 PM, at the Waitsfield Town Office.

Warren Select Board 2
2024-07-23 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Warren Municipal Building, 42 Cemetery Road, Warren, VT, 05674
The Warren Select Board meets the Second and Fourth Tuesdays of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Warren Municipal Building.

Healthcare Community Meeting—-Central Vermont Medical Center
2024-07-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Alumni Hall Conference Room—Barre City, 20 Auditorium Hill, Barre, Vermont, 05641, United States
Healthcare is unaffordable for too many Vermonters. Despite rising insurance costs, Vermont’s hospitals and health systems face financial pressures and our health system requires revitalization. Join local community leaders, hospital leaders, legislators, state officials, and your neighbors in discussing the options your community has for supporting the future of healthcare in Vermont.

Fayston Select Board 2
2024-07-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Fayston Town Hall, 866 North Fayston Road, Fayston, VT, 05673
The Fayston Select Board meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. at the Fayston Town Hall

Tuesday Tunes: Bettenroo
2024-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Bettenroo is a dynamic, versatile musical duo with undeniable vocal strength. Lori Jacobs & Anne Davey‘s flawlessly blended harmony is complemented with instrumental versatility of guitar, bass, and occasional percussion.
Based in Delaware & Vermont, Bettenroo performs in the US and beyond. They have been featured on Freeman Stage (a host to many national acts like Alison Kraus, Chicago, Melissa Etheridge, etc), Milton Theatre, WBOC’s Delmarva Life, Florida’s Gulf Coast & Keys, Ladybug Festival, New England as well as venues in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Costa Rica and Belize. Audiences can’t help but become an integral part of Anne and Lori’s passionate musical delivery. Check out Bettenroo’s CD ‘Live Out Loud‘.

Warren Planning Commission 2
2024-07-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Warren Municipal Building, 42 Cemetery Road, Warren, VT, 05674
The Warren Planning Commission meets every Second and Fourth Monday of the month

Waitsfield Select Board 2
2024-07-22 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Waitsfield Town Offices, 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The Select Board regularly meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 PM, with some exceptions. Upcoming meetings can be found in the calendar. Meetings are hybrid, held both in person at the Waitsfield Town Office (4144 Main Street) and remote via Zoom (Zoom link included on the meeting agenda).

Vermont Fresh Network’s Annual Forum Dinner at Shelburne Farms
2024-07-21 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, Vermont, 05482, United States
For one special evening in July, farmers and chefs from all across Vermont come together to prepare a sensational meal for you and fellow food enthusiasts. It is a fundraiser for the Vermont Fresh Network — all proceeds go to continuing programming that helps bring more Vermont grown and raised food to the table. Highlights include tasting Vermont artisanal products and beverages, a silent auction, and the grazing dinner by some of the state’s finest chefs.
Not only does this event feature and celebrate Vermont Fresh Network and the best of local food and drink, but this grazing farm-to-table dinner is a fundraiser — all proceeds from this event are put towards VFN’s annual programs that support our community of agricultural and culinary professionals who use Vermont-grown and raised foods to create economic, environmental, and social gains.

Bread & Puppet Theater Presents: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus and Gaza Grey Lady Cantata
2024-07-21 15:00 - 17:30, 2024-07-20 15:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

Summer Sundays: Chicken Fat Injection
2024-07-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Chicken Fat Injection is a Vermont band made up of some of the finest players in the region. With over 300 shows behind them, the group communication and groove is transcendent, bordering on ‘one mind’.

CFI’s choice of – and approach to – material is unique. Believing that playing sets that cross genres is not only refreshing and unexpected for an audience, the band remains fresh on each gig; CFI is dedicated to exploring the common languages of Funk, Soul, Jazz, Blues, Country, Reggae and Rock – in real time. It’s all CFI – and it’s all Groovy.
As a quartet, CFI is: George Petit on guitars and vocals, John Rivers on electric bass, Geza Carr on drumset and Mike Hartigan on keyboards…upon occasion, when the party permits, we expand to an nonet, adding up to a full five-piece horn section that includes Jake Whitesell (tenor), Rob DeBruyn (tenor), Avery Cooper (alto/bari), Conor Young (tpt/flug) and Nate Reit (t’bone).

Bread and Puppet presents: The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show
2024-07-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-20 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

The Prom – the musical
2024-07-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-07-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-07-18 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Lost Nation Theater, 39 Main Street, Montpelier, 05602
Eric Love is back to direct this award winning Spectacular! Taryn Noelle choreographs! Down-on-their-luck Broadway stars shake up a small Indiana town as they rally behind a teen who just wants to go to the prom with her girlfriend. Among others, The Prom features Taryn Noelle, Kathleen Keenan, and a host of local triple-threat teens, and stage veterans in their LNT debut.
7:30pm Thu-Sat; 2pm Sun
July 18 –August 4
Covid Safety Protocols: Masks are strongly encouraged. (LNT’s State of the Art Bio-Defense Air Purification “Synexis” System is also in service 24/7 keeping everyone as safe as possible.)
The Flood made LNT/City Hall’s elevator inoperable, requiring climbing stairs to attend in person. The play will be available digitally to make the show accessible to those unable to physically join us. We appreciate your understanding during this emergency situation. Since we cannot provide wheelchair/walker access, please call us (802-229-0492) or email info@lostnationtheater.org to discuss options for seeing the show.
SPONSORS: Vermont Recovery & Resilience Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, Montpelier Strong Fund, The City of Montpelier, Vermont Mutual Insurance, National Life Group, The World, Eternity, Vermont Arts Council/NEA, The Estate of Ted Richards, The Mary Shriver Fund of the Alan Weiss Estate
ABOUT LNT: Lost Nation Theater winner “Theater of the Decade” – Broadway World (2020); “Best of New England”, Yankee Magazine, was named “One of the Best regional theaters in America” by the New York Drama League, “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the New England Theatre Conference; and has won the People’s Choice awards from both Seven Days and The Times Argus for Best Theater.

Bluegrass Brunch
2024-07-21 12:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Mad Bush Falls, 7575 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Longtime local legends Brett Hughes (guitar), Pat Melvin (bass), Caleb Elder (fiddle) and Beau Stapleton (mandolin) pick bluegrass on the deck every Sunday. Named after Brett’s Old Home Place on Prickly Mountain Road, these old fellers have a heckuva time and you will too! Thanks to Frost Beer Works for supporting live music!

Kids Under the Canopy, Crafting for All Ages
2024-07-21 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York) | The Collection, 110 Mad River Green Shopping Center, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The Collection’s annual Kids Under the Canopy series is back!
Join us on Sundays in July for crafting and activities for all ages. Rain or shine.
This Sunday will be crafts and activities by Faber-Castell!

New Works from the CHIMERA Art Co-Lab: Dance Performance & Artist Discussion
2024-07-20 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Phantom Theater, Corner of Airport & Dump Roads, Warren, VT
The CHIMERA Art Co-Lab is an annual experimental choreographic residency at Waitsfield’s historic Stowell Barn. This summer’s residency culminates in a performance of New Works presented by Phantom Theater at Edgcomb Barn in Warren, VT.
The CHIMERA Art Co-Lab launched in 2022 and was established as an embodiment of hybridization: from the creative venue, to the artistic process and product. At the time of its inception, returning to in-person creation and performance seemed an unrealizable dream; the CHIMERA Art Co-Lab continues annually as a way to celebrate bringing together artistic bodies and minds in a creative space.
At this year’s week-long residency, Farmsprung Gatherings reports that the Co-Lab is expanding to include former students of the founding members.
Original Artists in Residence Amy C. Foley of MA, Stephanie Simpson of NYC, Larissa D. Ursprung of VT, and Stephen Ursprung of RI, return to create a new work-in-progress in collaboration with the newest CHIMERA Artists: Katie Bogardus of NY, Syra Pandey of MA, and Kaylen Travison of NY.
In addition to this new work, the company will re-stage the 2022 Co-Lab work “The Space[s] We Hold” which premiered at Phantom Theater and was recently re-staged at Dean College.

New Works by Chimera Art Co-Lab
2024-07-20 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Edgcomb Barn, 970 Dump Rd, Warren, Vermont, Warren, United States
Featuring “The Space[s] We Hold” as well as new works-in-progress by a diverse dance collective including classically trained, local artist Larissa Ursprung.

Music on the Mountain
2024-07-20 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Allyn’s Lodge, 102 Forest Drive Warren, VT 05674
At 3,125 feet Allyn’s Lodge is the perfect setting for an afternoon concert. Ride the Super Bravo Express Quad to Allyn’s Lodge for an outdoor concert. We’ll be serving up a variety of sandwiches, snacks, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages. Bring your favorite blanket or camp chair (make sure it’s in a bag or stuff sack), sunscreen, bug spray and water bottles (sorry no potable water available). Lift ticket purchase is required, IKON and Summer Lift Access passholders ride for free, or you can hike up. Please no outside alcohol or food. This is a shine only event. Please contact Guest Services for more info 802-583-6590.Stay tuned for artist information!

Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition
2024-07-20 12:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-19 16:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-19 12:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm, 48 Lareau Road, Waitsfield, 05673
The 12th annual Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition has works from 85 artists from all over the country including paintings from the Whiskey Painters of America. The exhibition has received past recognition in the international magazine The Art of Watercolour and has developed the reputation of presenting the most contemporary styles of watercolor. Richard Russell Sneary AWS, NWS, nationally recognized watercolor artist, returns to serve as judge of awards.
The show is open on Thursdays and Fridays from 4-9pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12-9 pm through July 20th.

Mosaic Vermont Corn Hole Tournament
2024-07-20 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Camp Meade, 961 ROUTE 2, middlesex, 05602
Attention all corn hole lovers! Get ready to toss and win prizes! Sign up for Mosaic’s Corn Hole Tournament & Fundraiser! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a beginner looking for some fun, this event promises an exciting day filled with a silent auction & 50/50 raffle, delicious food & drinks, and of course, some friendly competition.
July 20th from 11:00am – 4:00pm
At Camp Meade in Middlesex
961 US-2, Middlesex, VT 05602
To secure your spot in the tournament, please sign up by July 5th. Each team will include 2 participants and it only costs $50 to enter! There are only 32 team slots, so sign up ASAP! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will win a prize! Link to RSVP your team is on Mosaic’s Facebook page.

VMBA Day
2024-07-20 10:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Sugarbush Resort, 102 Forest Drive Warren, VT 05674, Warren, 05674
More information to come!

Elli Parr Jewelry Making Event – Friday July 19th
2024-07-19 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Addison West, 5275 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Elli Parr Jewelry is coming to Addison West on Friday July 19th, 12-5pm for a summer jewelry pop-up & DIY bracelet making event!
Give-a-ways every hour, totaling in over $400 worth of product!
One-of-a-kind jewerly pieces will be showcased and available for purchase.
Make-your-own bracelets starting at $20 a bracelet (depending on materials)
And so much more! We can’t wait to see you.

Mad Mingle Chamber Mixer
2024-07-18 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Bundy Modern, 361 Bundy Rd, Waitsfield, VT, United States
On Thursday, July 18 beginning at 5:30, The Bundy Modern will be hosting the next Mad Mingle chamber mixer. This is a perfect chance to re-connect and meet new MRV business colleagues at a fabulous venue in the peak of a classic MRV summer. Thanks to June and Wendell Anderson for sharing their space with our community. They wanted to share that they will be making an exciting announcement at the mixer and they are excited to host the chamber. Refreshments will be provided by our hosts.

Pub Night with Ragged Company 5pm – 9pm
2024-07-18 17:00 - 21:00 UTC | Mad River Barn
We are going to try again this week! Come Join us for Live Music by Ragged Company and your pub favorites!
5 – 9 PM See you there!
