Vermont Public Community Calendar

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

How are gender roles perpetuated in our own homes? What is the "mental load"? What are the models of partnership for a two-income household? How do both parents benefit from gender equity in the home? Explore the topic of gender equality at home with Dad Guild and author Kate Mangino and receive a free copy of her book, "Equal Partners".

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The hit public radio series is back for an evening of funny, mysterious and poignant short stories about love, performed live by eminent actors.

Just in time for Valentine's, Palentine's and, for you non-believers, a beautiful Saturday in February, "Selected Shorts" returns to the Hop with surprising romances, competing desires and unexpected encounters. Grab your partner, best friends or arch-nemesis for this special night! Stay tuned for casting news.

Selected Shorts was conceived at Symphony Space in New York City in 1985 with one simple premise—great short stories performed by great actors. Flash-forward nearly 40 years and Selected Shorts is broadcast on over 150 radio stations around the country, with more than 100,000 downloads every week. Each Selected Shorts is a completely original and unique evening of literature brought to life.

Performances:
Sat, Feb 14 at 4 & 7 p.m.

Dartmouth's Creative Writing Program will host a short story writing contest open to all undergraduates. The winner will be selected in collaboration with "Selected Shorts'" producers and will be performed as part of the event.

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery is pleased to present an MFA student exhibit featuring Jay Haywood. Born and raised in NYC, Jay is a fashion photographer and designer.

The exhibit runs from January 20 to February 20, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk on February 19th from 12-2 pm.

The gallery is located on the Vermont State University Johnson campus. For more information, follow us on social media at: VTSU-Johnson Campus Art Department or call. (802) 635-1469. 

Vermont author Chuck Collins will discuss his 2025 book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Ruin our Lives and Planet and his decades of experiences working with issues of equity, equality, economics, and community.

The U.S. and planet are living through a surge of wealth inequality. What does this mean for our daily lives –and the fate of the planet? What does extreme wealth inequality mean for our taxes, housing, political voice, health, and well-being? How can we reverse extreme inequality?

Author Chuck Collins is a resident of Guilford, Vermont and a campaigner, researcher, and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits the website, Inequality.org. He is the author of ten books including his newest book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet (The New Press, October 2025). He is author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, Born on Third Base, and, with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth.

The Black Experience 2026 (BX26) is a holistic celebration of Vermont’s Black lived experience (cultural, communal, educational), and a welcome addition to Burlington’s observation of Black History Month.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. He is the host of the new action podcast Be Antiracist. Dr. Kendi is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest-ever winner of that award. He has also produced five straight #1 New York Times bestsellers, including How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored by Jason Reynolds. In 2020, Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

Presented in partnership with nuwave Equity.

Friday, March 6, 7pm, the fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi comes to speak at Spruce Peak Arts!
Tickets price range: $57.97 to $85.25

Isaac Mizrahi has worked extensively in the entertainment industry as an actor, host, writer, designer and producer for over 30 years. He is the subject and co-creator of Unzipped, a documentary following the making of his Fall 1994 collection which received an award at the Sundance Film Festival. He hosted his own television talk show The Isaac Mizrahi Show for seven years, has written two books, and has made countless appearances in movies and on television. He currently serves as a judge on Project Runway: All-Stars.

He is Chief Designer for the Isaac Mizrahi brands, a division of Xcel Brands, Inc. In 2009, Mizrahi launched his lifestyle collection, “ISAACMIZRAHILIVE!” on QVC. His IMNYC collection is currently sold at Lord & Taylor and Hudson’s Bay Company.

Mizrahi has directed productions of A Little Night Music and The Magic Flute for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Annually, he directs and narrates his production of the children’s classic Peter and The Wolf at The Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has performed cabaret at Café Carlyle, Joe’s Pub, West Bank Café and City Winery locations across the country.

Mizrahi has his own production company, Isaac Mizrahi Entertainment, under which he has several projects in development in television, theatre and literature. His memoir, I.M., was published in February 2019.

Join Sculptural Ideas artist Lee Williams for a discussion of intuition, creativity, and the influence of geography and color on his artistic practice.

A native of Wales, Williams shares insights into how living in Vermont influences his approach to creating sculpture and why color is a key element in his work.

Lee Williams is an arts educator at the Southern Vermont Art Center and the River Arts School.

Please join us for an evening with Nick Meyer, as he discusses Good Bones, a newly released body of work and book that reflects on parenthood, history, anxiety, and the uneasy rhythms of contemporary life.

Good Bones emerges from Meyer’s experience of raising a young family amid overlapping crises. Moving fluidly between the intimate and the societal, the work grapples with questions of legacy, responsibility, and how to remain attentive to moments of care and joy in an era shaped by uncertainty and relentless news cycles. Drawing a parallel to Gary Winogrand’s restless mid-career doubts, Meyer positions this project as both a self-portrait and a document of its time: an attempt to look clearly at the present while acknowledging the ways history repeats, erodes, and persists.

In this talk, Meyer will speak about the making of the book, the ideas that shaped the work, and how photography functions for him as a way to sit with ambiguity rather than resolve it. The evening will include a presentation followed by conversation and audience questions. Copies of the book, along with Archive, another release from Meyer’s imprint Nowhere Books, will be available for purchase.

This event is open to all and especially suited for anyone interested in contemporary documentary practice, photobooks, and work that bridges personal experience with broader cultural reflection.

Anne Lamott writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus. But armed with self-effacing humor –she is laugh-out-loud funny – and ruthless honesty, Lamott converts her subjects into enchantment. Actually, she writes about what most of us don’t like to think about. She wrote her first novel for her father, the writer Kenneth Lamott, when he was diagnosed with brain cancer. She has said that the book was “a present to someone I loved who was going to die.” In all her novels, she writes about loss – loss of loved ones and loss of personal control. She doesn’t try to sugar coat the sadness, frustration and disappointment, but tells her stories with honesty, compassion and a pureness of voice. As she says, “I have a lot of hope and a lot of faith and I struggle to communicate that.”

Anne Lamott does communicate her faith; in her books and in person, she lifts, comforts, and inspires, all the while keeping us laughing. Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, Crooked Little Heart, and Imperfect Birds.

Get your tickets now at sprucepeakarts.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.

The League of Women Voters of Vermont, in partnership with Kellogg-Hubbard Library presents the second in its 2025-26 Lecture Series. This season we look at voting rights and access to the ballot.

The second program, on Wednesday, December 10, at 7:00 pm, presents Prof. Alec Ewald, who teaches constitutional law and U.S. politics and constitutional law, in the Department of Political Science at UVM He will present a history and impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, including recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Curt that have limited its reach.

The League of Women Voters of Vermont Lecture Series, in its tenth season, is designed to bring outstanding speakers to discuss contemporary issues related to democracy and social justice.

This will be a virtual presentation.