Vermont Public Community Calendar

Join RunVermont for the 20th Annual Half Marathon Unplugged presented by Switchback Brewing Co. to celebrate the start of spring. Options include a half marathon, 2-person relay, and virtual for each kind of participant to enjoy the fun. Expect no major hills and 7+ miles of beautiful Burlington Rec Path scenery overlooking Lake Champlain and Adirondacks.

Vermont Youth Dancers (VYD) is proud to bring their signature blend of hip-hop and lyrical dance to the stage with Mary Poppins, You’ll Be In My Heart, a dynamic retelling of the classic novel by P.L. Travers. Featuring a talented cast of 45 young local performers, imaginative sets and costumes, and an emotive modern soundtrack, this high-energy dance-theatre experience offers a fresh take on a beloved classic.

Vermont Youth Dancers (VYD) is proud to bring their signature blend of hip-hop and lyrical dance to the stage with Mary Poppins, You’ll Be In My Heart, a dynamic retelling of the classic novel by P.L. Travers. Featuring a talented cast of 45 young local performers, imaginative sets and costumes, and an emotive modern soundtrack, this high-energy dance-theatre experience offers a fresh take on a beloved classic.

Vermont Youth Dancers (VYD) is proud to bring their signature blend of hip-hop and lyrical dance to the stage with Mary Poppins, You’ll Be In My Heart, a dynamic retelling of the classic novel by P.L. Travers. Featuring a talented cast of 45 young local performers, imaginative sets and costumes, and an emotive modern soundtrack, this high-energy dance-theatre experience offers a fresh take on a beloved classic.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

Roomful of Teeth and Gabriel Kahane present Kahane’s composition, Elevator Songs, a radio play/song cycle set in an interdimensional hotel. As the listeners are transported through the hotel via the titular elevator, they encounter a wide array of stories: a woman on her honeymoon in Utah during pandemic lockdown, a man writing a eulogy for a young AIDS victim, and more.

The piece is a celebration of the individual voices of Roomful of Teeth—usually heard as a collective—and a showcase for Kahane's artistry as a songwriter and storyteller. Also on the program, Caroline Shaw’s “The Isle”, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

Robin Pecknold is an American singer-songwriter best known as the principal songwriter and vocalist for Fleet Foxes, and has recorded four studio albums: Fleet Foxes (2008), Helplessness Blues (2011), Crack-Up (2017), and Shore (2020), along with live albums A Very Lonely Solstice (2021) and Live On Boston Harbor (2024). Originally from Seattle, WA, he has been nominated for many awards, including GRAMMY nominations for best Folk Album and for Best Alternative Music Album.

Made Here Film Festival is a regional festival for filmmakers residing in New England and Québec. MHFF is New England’s only competitive festival dedicated entirely to films made by creatives based in our region. Made Here Film Festival takes place at Burlington Beer Company in an historic building constructed in 1903 as the North American factory of Auguste and Louis Lumière, the film pioneers often credited with the invention of motion pictures and the first cinematic presentations.

MHFF is free to the public. Donations are encouraged.

Films are accepted through Feb. 6, 2026.

Made Here Film Festival is a regional festival for filmmakers residing in New England and Québec. MHFF is New England’s only competitive festival dedicated entirely to films made by creatives based in our region. Made Here Film Festival takes place at Burlington Beer Company in an historic building constructed in 1903 as the North American factory of Auguste and Louis Lumière, the film pioneers often credited with the invention of motion pictures and the first cinematic presentations.

MHFF is free to the public. Donations are encouraged.

Films are accepted through Feb. 6, 2026.

Aristo Sham, age 29, of Hong Kong, is the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist, where he also took the Audience Award. A dapper, aristocratic figure on stage, Sham is an engaging presence with a drive to take on the great pieces of the piano repertoire and a natural, infectious spontaneity at the keyboard. You can’t really say he was catapulted to fame by the Cliburn win; Aristo was featured at the age of three in the 2009 documentary The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies.

Made Here Film Festival is a regional festival for filmmakers residing in New England and Québec. MHFF is New England’s only competitive festival dedicated entirely to films made by creatives based in our region. Made Here Film Festival takes place at Burlington Beer Company in an historic building constructed in 1903 as the North American factory of Auguste and Louis Lumière, the film pioneers often credited with the invention of motion pictures and the first cinematic presentations.

MHFF is free to the public. Donations are encouraged.

Films are accepted through Feb. 6, 2026.

Violinist Laurie Smukler returns with New York City colleagues — violist Tal First, cellist Natasha Brofsky, and pianist Qing Jiang — for an all-Fauré evening. The program includes two chamber music masterpieces-both Piano Quartets, the radiant Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, and the brilliant Fantaisie for flute and piano with flutist Karen Kevra.

Made Here Film Festival is a regional festival for filmmakers residing in New England and Québec. MHFF is New England’s only competitive festival dedicated entirely to films made by creatives based in our region. Made Here Film Festival takes place at Burlington Beer Company in an historic building constructed in 1903 as the North American factory of Auguste and Louis Lumière, the film pioneers often credited with the invention of motion pictures and the first cinematic presentations.

MHFF is free to the public. Donations are encouraged.

Films are accepted through Feb. 6, 2026.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

The Green Mountain Chamber Players will perform works for string and piano at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington on Saturday, May 9 at 2:00pm. Featuring GMCMF Artist Faculty violinist Elizabeth Chang, violist Nardo Poy, cellists Emily Taubl and Caleb van der Swaagh, and pianist Hiromi Fukuda. The program includes Xenakis's Dhipli Zyia for violin and cello, Arensky's String Quartet No. 2 for violin, viola, and two cellos, and Dvořák's Piano Quartet No. 2 in E♭ major. Tickets are $45 general admission, $20 for music educators and under-20, and free for students. Visit gmcmf.org to purchase tickets.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

Join us for an 8-class series taught by Technology for Tomorrow! Designed to help adult learners build advanced workplace-ready technology skills, BTC's Tier 2 Digital Literacy course is intended for learners who already have basic computer experience and are ready to strengthen their confidence using Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, cloud-based tools, and cross-platform navigation. Each 1.5-hour session provides hands-on, practical instruction using Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides, with clear connections to how these skills transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

VSAC tuition assistance may be available to eligible adult learners and can cover all or part of the program cost. For more information or to inquire about eligibility, contact btcadulted@bsdvt.org.

Join us at the Flynn for an exclusive evening with award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks:  America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts:  An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; The U.S. and the Holocaust; The American Buffalo; Leonardo da Vinci; and, most recently, The American Revolution.

Future film projects include Emancipation to Exodus, and LBJ & the Great Society, among others.

Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including seventeen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations. In September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In November of 2022, Ken was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

With Moderator, Jane Lindholm
Host and Executive Producer, But Why? and special projects for Vermont Public

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for Vermont Public. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning Vermont Public program Vermont Edition.

Jane joined Vermont Public in 2007 to expand Vermont Edition from a weekly pilot into the flagship daily newsmagazine it is today. She has been recognized with regional and national accolades, including several Murrow, PRNDI and GRACIE awards. In 2016 she started the nationally recognized But Why, which takes questions from kids all over the world and finds interesting people to answer them.

All P1 Tickets come with a special merch bundle including a limited edition show poster and a Vermont Public tote bag.