Vermont Public Community Calendar

The 33rd Annual New World Festival…Vermont’s Premier Celtic and Québécois Event!

5 Stages • Street Performers • Called Dances • Kids Activities • Puppets • Food & Drink Vendors

Featuring: Cassie and Maggie • Le Winston Band • Cécilia • The Reel McCoys • Kavaz • Cantrip • Heron Valley • Skye Consort & Emma Björling • Seán Dagher • April Verch & Cody Walters • Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira • Footworks • High Drive • Sugar in the Pan • No Strings Marionette Company • Morris Dancers

Vermont's Orleans County Fair celebrates 158 years this year! We hope you'll join us for vendors, rides, HUNTLEY and more!

Vermont's Orleans County Fair celebrates 158 years this year! We hope you'll join us for vendors, rides, HUNTLEY and more!

The South End Arts + Business Association (SEABA) presents Art Hop, a family friendly, free-to-attend arts festival September 5-7. This annual celebration of all that the South End Arts District has to offer returns with open studios, diverse art exhibits and kid-friendly activities.
Art Hop is an amazing opportunity for the community to come together as we all explore the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of Burlington’s arts district. Art Hop is co-created by hundreds of community members hosting and showing work across the 1.5 miles festival. Highlights include:

-The 110+ open studios and small businesses
-Artists in the Juried and SEABA-curated shows
-Designers and models in the STRUT! Fashion show (get your tickets now!)
-Vendors at the Saturday Artist Market
-Participants in Kids Hop, a mini festival for kids to explore art activities and services

You can explore these free events and more Friday, September 5, 5 p.m.-10pm, Saturday, September 6, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, September 7, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Plus, it doesn’t stop there! SEABA Curated Sites host art exhibitions for 1–3 months after the opening weekend, both at South End sites and online! Visit our website for more details, maps, and ways to volunteer!

The South End Arts + Business Association—known more commonly as SEABA—is a small non-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the interdependence between art and business to enhance the vibrant, creative and diverse community of the South End Arts District.
Facilitating Art Hop is one way we can introduce you to new artists and businesses that you will love to support! Come explore Labor Day weekend and return year-round to enjoy Burlington’s Arts District.

The South End Arts + Business Association
outreach@seaba.com
seaba.com
@seaba

Tickets for STRUT!, Art Hop's fashion show, are available now! Tickets are $20-$30 in advance.

Vermont's Orleans County Fair celebrates 158 years this year! We hope you'll join us for vendors, rides, HUNTLEY and more!

The South End Arts + Business Association (SEABA) presents Art Hop, a family friendly, free-to-attend arts festival September 5-7. This annual celebration of all that the South End Arts District has to offer returns with open studios, diverse art exhibits and kid-friendly activities.
Art Hop is an amazing opportunity for the community to come together as we all explore the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of Burlington’s arts district. Art Hop is co-created by hundreds of community members hosting and showing work across the 1.5 miles festival. Highlights include:

-The 110+ open studios and small businesses
-Artists in the Juried and SEABA-curated shows
-Designers and models in the STRUT! Fashion show (get your tickets now!)
-Vendors at the Saturday Artist Market
-Participants in Kids Hop, a mini festival for kids to explore art activities and services

You can explore these free events and more Friday, September 5, 5 p.m.-10pm, Saturday, September 6, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, September 7, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Plus, it doesn’t stop there! SEABA Curated Sites host art exhibitions for 1–3 months after the opening weekend, both at South End sites and online! Visit our website for more details, maps, and ways to volunteer!

The South End Arts + Business Association—known more commonly as SEABA—is a small non-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the interdependence between art and business to enhance the vibrant, creative and diverse community of the South End Arts District.
Facilitating Art Hop is one way we can introduce you to new artists and businesses that you will love to support! Come explore Labor Day weekend and return year-round to enjoy Burlington’s Arts District.

The South End Arts + Business Association
outreach@seaba.com
seaba.com
@seaba

Family friendly fair with live music, food, craft vendors, a flower show, activities for kids and more.

Jam For The Parks is back & better than ever! Join us on September 6, 2025 to celebrate our 2nd annual Jam for the Parks event in collaboration with Vermont Parks Forever, benefiting Vermont State Parks! A portion of proceeds from the event will be donated to Vermont Parks Forever, benefiting their mission of preserving and advocating for Vermont’s 55 state parks.

This year’s event will occur at Waterbury Center State Park, located on the beautiful Waterbury Reservoir. Secure your ticket now to experience this one-of-a-kind, locally-grown music festival in central VT. Let’s jam!

Music Lineup:
Ryan Montbleau Band, Zach Nugent’s Dead Set, Jahriffe, The Moondogs, Nick Bredice, Rock & Roll Playhouse

Waterbury Center State Park will be festival-ready with multiple bars stocked with your favorite local craft beverages (alcoholic and NA options), multiple food truck vendors, family-friendly activities, and more! Kids 12 & Under FREE

See complete event details

Come to the Peacham Farmers Market presents Apples & Arts on Saturday, September 6, 1–4 p.m., for a lively, All Folks afternoon of food, music and community! Jump in on live apple pressing and sip fresh-pressed cider, snack on local apples and enjoy savory bites from Stag & Thistle. Browse stalls brimming with flowers, vegetables, garlic, meats, mushrooms, bread, pottery, woven goods and lathe-turned wooden bowls, plus maple cotton candy and icy treats. Soak up live music by Icarus Tyree, sit for live portraits by Larry Golden and meet the Hard Pressed Community Printshop. Bakers: bring your best for the 1st Annual Apple Pie Contest—deliver pies to the Market Info Tent by 1:00 p.m.; judging at 2:30, winners at 3:30. Questions or entries: peachamfarmersmarket@gmail.com. See you on the Green!

Need a new home? Thinking of building a home or an addition? A wealth of home experts and information will be available to answer questions and give advice at the “New Home Fair” on September 6 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Plainfield Opera House.

The goal of this event is to bring as many new home resources as we can into one room, so that anyone interested in building a house in Central Vermont has access to all the resources that we can gather in one place. This event is being organized by the East Village Expansion Advisory Committee of Plainfield, hoping that if the expansion project proceeds, potential buyers will be ideally situated to build a home in the new planned neighborhood. Also, we want to offer the same resources to anyone interested in building in Vermont!

Over thirty exhibitors will be on hand to answer questions and give advice. Exhibitors will include, TURN-KEY (home is delivered on site ready to occupy with minimal work left before closing), SHELL+  (delivered in parts, panels or a kit; major work needed on site to complete the home but overall time is greatly reduced), On Site Builders - These firms can finish a shell/kit or they can build from scratch, also available will be Designers and Consultants, advice on Homes On a Chassis and Yurts, Do it Yourself helpers, shared equity developers as information and representatives from banks and lending institutions.

Parking is available in the small lot across High Street from the Town Hall Opera House; the large Park & Ride lot up Main Street; near the Recreation Field on Recreation Field Rd and the Health Center parking lot (5 min walk).

Accessibility: The Plainfield Town Hall Opera House is a wheelchair-accessible venue with one accessible parking spot directly outside. There is an elevator to the second floor, where the event will be taking place. We will not be making the event digitally available as there won't be any presentations or talks, just exhibits. However, we will have a brochure available, which we may be able to publish digitally.

Lack of housing, particularly affordable housing, is an enormous problem in Vermont. “The New Home Fair” is just one small way that we can begin to resolve some of our communities' housing issues. More information is available on the website https://sites.google.com/view/new-home-fair/home

For more information contact Lauren Geiger
lauren9334@gmail.com

802-828-2733

Vermont's Orleans County Fair celebrates 158 years this year! We hope you'll join us for vendors, rides, HUNTLEY and more!

The South End Arts + Business Association (SEABA) presents Art Hop, a family friendly, free-to-attend arts festival September 5-7. This annual celebration of all that the South End Arts District has to offer returns with open studios, diverse art exhibits, and kid friendly activities.
Art Hop is an amazing opportunity for the community to come together as we all explore the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of Burlington’s arts district. Art Hop is co-created by hundreds of community members hosting and showing work across the 1.5 miles festival. Highlights include:

-The 110+ open studios and small businesses
-Artists in the Juried and SEABA-curated shows
-Designers and models in the STRUT! Fashion show (get your tickets now!)
-Vendors at the Saturday Artist Market
-Participants in Kids Hop, a mini festival for kids to explore art activities and services

You can explore these free events on Friday, September 5, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, September 6, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, September 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Plus, it doesn’t stop there! SEABA Curated Sites host art exhibitions for 1–3 months after the opening weekend, both at South End sites and online! Visit our website for more details, maps, and ways to volunteer!

The South End Arts + Business Association—known more commonly as SEABA—is a small non-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the interdependence between art and business to enhance the vibrant, creative and diverse community of the South End Arts District.
Facilitating Art Hop is one way we can introduce you to new artists and businesses that you will love to support! Come explore Labor Day weekend and return year-round to enjoy Burlington’s Arts District.

Ride Hours:
Thursday: 1:30pm to close
Friday: noon to close
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to close

Ride Hours:
Thursday: 1:30pm to close
Friday: noon to close
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to close

Ride Hours:
Thursday: 1:30pm to close
Friday: noon to close
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to close

Join us for the 4th Annual Whoopie Pie Festival! Taking place on Saturday, September 13 from 12 – 4 p.m. in downtown Rutland, Vermont!

Last year we saw an unprecedented 7,500 attendees take part in this growing event. In fact, we’ve grown so much that we have been named a Signature Event by the State of Vermont Tourism Department. We are one of only 12 Vermont events that are considered a Signature Event!

We will once again be closing off Center Street and Merchants Row for a day-long festival with fun activities for the whole family: There will be music, food trucks, a green street with yoga and other activities, bouncy houses, a magician, Caricature artists, face painters, street performances, and a contest for Overall Best, Most Creative and People’s Choice for Whoopie Pies! This year, we will also have fun new events for both kids and adults! A foot race with a break for a sweet treat (The Whoopie Mile!) as well as a Whoopie Pie Eating Contest! We also plan to have a Soap Box Derby race!

Join us for the Sweetest Day in Rutland!

See our site for information about the event, tickets, and registering as a baker or vendor.

Ride Hours:
Thursday: 1:30pm to close
Friday: noon to close
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to close

The 2nd annual BURLINGTON BAROQUE FESTIVAL will be a wondrous array of repertoire offered by a renowned ensemble of specialists performing in historically informed style and on the period baroque instruments for which the music was written. Our Festival Artists-in-Residence, who are regularly featured in festival performances across North America, Europe, South America and Asia, will be gathered in Burlington for the week and will be joined by the Burlington Baroque Festival Singers for four spectacular performances at College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont.

4 DAYS - 4 PERFORMANCES
7 MASTER COMPOSERS - 12 MASTERWORKS
60 PERFORMERS
Featuring Artists-in-Residence
Ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons Baroque Orchestra
The Burlington Baroque Festival Singers
Internationally Acclaimed Vocal Soloists
Eric Milnes, Director

Thursday, September 18th, 7:30 p.m.
Welcome To All The Pleasures!
Odes to St. Cecilia, Patron Saint of Music
by Henry Purcell & George Frideric Handel
with Burlington Baroque Festival Singers

CRAG-VT is excited to announce the sixth annual Vermont Climbing Festival, taking place September 19–21, 2025 in Waterbury and on the cliffs of Bolton, Vermont. This three-day celebration of climbing and community brings together climbers of all ages and abilities for a weekend packed with climbing clinics, workshops, competitions, speakers, music and more.

All festival proceeds support CRAG-VT’s mission to protect and preserve Vermont’s climbing areas, ensuring access, stewardship and education for generations to come.

Pre-Sales (Now – September 1): $55 Public / $48 Members
After September 1: $70
Kids 12 and under: Free | Ages 12–18: $25

The 2nd annual BURLINGTON BAROQUE FESTIVAL will be a wondrous array of repertoire offered by a renowned ensemble of specialists performing in historically informed style and on the period baroque instruments for which the music was written. Our Festival Artists-in-Residence, who are regularly featured in festival performances across North America, Europe, South America and Asia, will be gathered in Burlington for the week and will be joined by the Burlington Baroque Festival Singers for four spectacular performances at College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont.

4 DAYS - 4 PERFORMANCES
7 MASTER COMPOSERS - 12 MASTERWORKS
60 PERFORMERS
Featuring Artists-in-Residence
Ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons Baroque Orchestra
The Burlington Baroque Festival Singers
Internationally Acclaimed Vocal Soloists
Eric Milnes, Director

Friday, September 19th, 7:30 p.m.
Seasons & Songs
The Four Seasons & Concert Arias by Antonio Vivaldi