Vermont Public Community Calendar

Shaker Bridge Theatre presents a provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck (most Broadway-produced female playwright). Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon, and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting comedy.

I will be discussing my new book, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment, which was recently featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

For this event, I will tailor my talk to focus on Burlington's history. We will delve into the legacy of the "Kake Walk" and highlight the interracial and interfaith local Civil Rights Movement and Black Power efforts that ultimately mobilized to overturn it. Whether you are a long-time resident, a student, or part of a local organization, this is a vital piece of our community's history, and I would love nothing more than to share this space and conversation with you.

Please note that an RSVP is required to attend. You can secure your spot by registering at the link below.

THE CHILDREN
by LUCY KIRKWOOD
directed by SARAH ELIZABETH WANSLEY
MARCH 25 - APRIL 12, 2026

In a remote cottage on the lonely British coast, two retired nuclear scientists have settled into a peaceful existence. Outside, the world is unraveling in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear disaster. When an old friend arrives with an unsettling proposal, they must confront the choices of their past and the moral dilemmas of their future. A gripping, suspenseful drama that The New York Times calls “bristling with chills,” The Children is an urgent and haunting exploration of environmental responsibility, legacy, and the price of survival.

A meta-theatrical play that explores how we might move through history together in the aftermath of slavery.

Onstage is a two-story house. From one angle, it's mucked out after a flood. From another, it's a new development wrapped in Tyvek. And from another, it's "Tara" from "Gone with the Wind" being transformed into an Airbnb. The piano can't be tuned. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.

The work was co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Tony award-winning Rachel Chavkin, best known for directing the Broadway hits "Hadestown" and "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812". In 2019, she was the only woman directing a musical on Broadway. This spirit of groundbreaking collaboration extended to the writing process, which was led by a collective of 21 Black-, POC-, and white-identifying artists ranging in age from 28 through 98.

Propelled by a quilt-like score, the work slips between fact and fiction, performance and ritual, process and product, to tell a story of historical figures and fictional characters seeking and fleeing intimacy—and how these theater artists are doing the same.

Ed Morgan is better known simply as “The Music Man.” For over 10 years he has delighted kids and grownups alike with his interactive blend of original & traditional children’s songs. Singing and dancing for kids ages 1-99!

For more information, contact Becky Hatfield, Youth Services Librarian, bhatfield@stjathenaeum.org or -802-745-1391.

This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.

January 8-April 23rd, 2026
Reception: January 17, 5:30-7pm

ZERO CELSIUS unfolds at Mad Arts and Sugarbush Resort, bringing together artwork that explores the textures, tensions, and transformations of winter. From the hush of frozen landscapes to the volatility of a warming climate, the exhibition reflects on how the cold season shapes—and is reshaped by—human and environmental relationships.
Featuring sculpture, installation, sound, photography, and digital media, ZERO CELSIUS examines winter as material, concept, and metaphor: crystalline, fleeting, and ecologically vital. Visitors are invited to consider the fragility of snow in a changing world, reconnect with winter’s wonder and silence, and share their own stories of a season both timeless and increasingly imperiled.

This well-deserved retrospective Heart and Eye - World Photography by Elliot Burg is a journey into an artist’s life through captured moments. Very few of us have had an opportunity to explore parts of the globe during specific times of political unrest, Carnival, floods or to witness poignant athletic achievements. Elliot Burg’s candid compositions have been created over the last 10 years and they take us to memorable places through the lens of portraiture. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience these arresting images—some exotic, and others poignant— yet all are revealing and intimate.

“For me, photography is a lens through which to see and communicate the human condition: the inspirational sight of a 74-year-old athlete cresting the high jump bar in a seniors track and field meet … the yearning of a young boy watching grownups play basketball in a public park in Brooklyn … the hardship and wisdom etched on the face of a village woman in Myanmar … the loving quirkiness of Vermont’s annual Tunbridge Fair … the courage of men and women who have opposed tyranny in their homeland.” – Elliot Burg

Burg lives in Middlesex, Vermont. Before turning to photography, he practiced public interest law in Vermont for 37 years. His past solo shows have included Transcending the Limits of Age (track and field athletes at the National Senior Games); The Combination (boxer Ali Watson in the ring); Sunset Park, Brooklyn (two days in the life of a city park); Eli’s Town (seeking family roots and finding kindness and brutality in Ukraine); ¡Conga! (images of Havana); Bandstand! (performers and their fans at the Middlesex Bandstand); and Recovery (volunteers at work after the 2023 Montpelier flood). He has also photographed political demonstrators in Washington, DC, Tunbridge Fair-goers in Vermont, village women in Myanmar and Laos, and musicians and dancers in New Orleans. Two of his most recent projects have focused on human rights in Argentina and The Gambia.

All artist receptions at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery are free and open to the public.
Food and drink will be served.

The Opening Reception and Montpelier Art Walk is Friday, April 3 from 4:30 to 7:00 pm at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery with Artist Remarks at 6:00 p.m. On view until June 26. Open daily: 8:00am - 4:30pm (closed during lunch time)

Clark Russell’s Unclassified Art:
A collection of never before seen mixed media works – abstract wall sculptures, metal-collages, painting-collages and more. See content transformed, maps redrawn, and late developments in Riddleville’s small world.

Opening reception: Friday April 3rd, 5-9pm
Please join us for an evening of creative connection. Free beverages and snacks provided.

Show Duration: April 3rd – April 25th 2026
*Meet the artist each Saturday of the exhibition from 2-3pm

Burlington abstractivist Clark Russell has been creating art since graduating UVM in 1983. Solo exhibitions of Russell’s work have taken place in his hometown St. Louis, New York City; Vermont’s Fleming Museum, Flynn Center for the Arts, and Firehouse Gallery. While Riddleville’s literally figurative subjected objects may raise questions, Russell’s abstract constructs ask to be sensed rather than solved. Looking to overcome their own materiality and be free of associations, these artworks are not about something else but are actual themselves.

The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
288 Pine St. Burlington VT
(south side of Soda Plant, free parking)
Gallery open every Thu-Fri-Sat 12-5pm
or by appointment: spacegalleryvt@gmail.com

Celebrate National Poetry Month and kick-off the 6th year of Poetry Downtown Rutland with a FREE screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Come See Me in the Good Light. With pre-show poetry and a post-show community conversation on grief's essential role to living and how poetry and art help us to move forward, we’ll speak with panelists poet Jess Bouchard, artist-healer Kelli Prescott, and death doula Jackie Proulx.

Come See Me in the Good Light, directed by Ryan White, is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about queer poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit, and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Co-presenters The Paper Poet, whose mission is to decrease hardship by increasing heartship through art and poetic medicine experiences, and Phoenix Books, your local independent bookstore, with additional support from Poetry Society of Vermont, will be in the lobby starting at 5:30 PM with a communal poem activity inviting the audience to express their grief and love.

Shaker Bridge Theatre presents a provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck (most Broadway-produced female playwright). Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon, and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting comedy.

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.

With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter), innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

Welcome to the Kit Kat Klub, where life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful... even the orchestra is beautiful!

Winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical, this masterpiece uses the decadent nightlife of 1930's Berlin as a backdrop for the rise of fascism.

A member of the piano jazz pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force for more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker.

A seventeen-time Grammy nominee, Hersch has garnered jazz’s most prestigious awards, including a Doris Duke Artist (2016) and the Jazz Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021).

Wild Goose Players presents Cabaret!

Welcome to the Kit Kat Klub, where life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful… even the orchestra is beautiful!

Winner of 8 Tony Awards including best musical, this masterpiece uses the decadent nightlife of 1920's Berlin as a backdrop for the rise of fascism.

Fri, April 3, 2026, Sat, April 4, 2026 (mat & eve), Thu, April 9, 2026, Fri, April 10, 2026, Sat, April 11, 2026 (mat & eve) & Sun, April 12, 2026

African, Caribbean, funk, reggae, and Latin grooves meet New England old-time and Celtic fiddle in Gaslight Tinkers’ exhilarating, genre-bending sound. Since 2012, I-Shea, Clara, Garrett, Elie, and Peter have brought their joyous, danceable music to clubs, festivals, and dances across the U.S. and Caribbean, delighting audiences with playful surprises and boundless energy.

Opening the evening is Luke Concannon, former lead singer of UK No.1 act Nizlopi (The JCB Song) and acclaimed solo artist. His 2022 album Ecstatic Bird in the Burning charted in the UK and US folk charts, showcasing heartfelt, infectious music rooted in community and tradition.

THE CHILDREN
by LUCY KIRKWOOD
directed by SARAH ELIZABETH WANSLEY
MARCH 25 - APRIL 12, 2026

In a remote cottage on the lonely British coast, two retired nuclear scientists have settled into a peaceful existence. Outside, the world is unraveling in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear disaster. When an old friend arrives with an unsettling proposal, they must confront the choices of their past and the moral dilemmas of their future. A gripping, suspenseful drama that The New York Times calls “bristling with chills,” The Children is an urgent and haunting exploration of environmental responsibility, legacy, and the price of survival.

A meta-theatrical play that explores how we might move through history together in the aftermath of slavery.

Onstage is a two-story house. From one angle, it's mucked out after a flood. From another, it's a new development wrapped in Tyvek. And from another, it's "Tara" from "Gone with the Wind" being transformed into an Airbnb. The piano can't be tuned. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.

The work was co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Tony award-winning Rachel Chavkin, best known for directing the Broadway hits "Hadestown" and "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812". In 2019, she was the only woman directing a musical on Broadway. This spirit of groundbreaking collaboration extended to the writing process, which was led by a collective of 21 Black-, POC-, and white-identifying artists ranging in age from 28 through 98.

Propelled by a quilt-like score, the work slips between fact and fiction, performance and ritual, process and product, to tell a story of historical figures and fictional characters seeking and fleeing intimacy—and how these theater artists are doing the same.

What is improv? Is it throwing people onstage and seeing what happens? Nah, although that might be fun. Improv has rules and goals and the biggest is to make each other look good while we tell a good story. Improv is fun and games and silliness. Come play and we promise you'll learn a playful and creative tool for not only the theater, but your everyday life! Dress in clothes you can move in and bring a snack. We'll take a 10 minute break midway through each class.

🐣 Brandon Spring Egg Hunt
April 4th, 2026 at Noon
Sponsored by the Downtown Brandon Alliance 🌸
We are excited to host the Brandon Spring Egg Hunt, a fun community event that brings everyone together to celebrate spring. Grab your maps from participating businesses and begin your adventure finding eggs around town. You could find candy, surprise coupons, and even Brandon bucks!

January 8-April 23rd, 2026
Reception: January 17, 5:30-7pm

ZERO CELSIUS unfolds at Mad Arts and Sugarbush Resort, bringing together artwork that explores the textures, tensions, and transformations of winter. From the hush of frozen landscapes to the volatility of a warming climate, the exhibition reflects on how the cold season shapes—and is reshaped by—human and environmental relationships.
Featuring sculpture, installation, sound, photography, and digital media, ZERO CELSIUS examines winter as material, concept, and metaphor: crystalline, fleeting, and ecologically vital. Visitors are invited to consider the fragility of snow in a changing world, reconnect with winter’s wonder and silence, and share their own stories of a season both timeless and increasingly imperiled.