Special, free online workshop with transformational life coach, Nate Reit. Offering tools to help ease stress, restlessness and insecurity, and bring in an empowering mindset to stay calm, confident, focused, and be your most resilient self during these turbulent times.
Biographer Mark Dery discusses Edward Gorey, the author and illustrator whose picture books full of murder, mayhem, and discreet depravity influenced Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and Guillermo Del Toro. Dery reveals the surprisingly serious themes woven through Gorey’s whimsically sinister work. Presented by the Vermont Humanities Council.
VHC will post the video of Dery‘s talk by 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 29.
In this unprecedented time, as more and more of us are turning to poetry, the Academy of American Poets launched Shelter in Poems, an initiative that invites poets and poetry lovers to share poems on social media that give them comfort or courage.
Shelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading extends this idea with a special offering of poems read by poets laureate, actors, musicians, artists, and more.
David Macaulay is the award-winning author and illustrator of Castle, Cathedral, and The Way We Work. In Crossing On Time he illuminates the rich and storied history that culminated in the building of the fastest, most advanced, and last of the great steamships: SS United States. It also tells of a personal journey: the famed vessel was the very one on which the author emigrated to America as a ten-year-old.
We are excited to announce that our first Light it Up Vermont show will happen on April 21st @ 7pm.
Our line up for this first show includes:
Dennis Akey, Kerri Macon, Cindy Pierce, Colin Ryan, Sage Tyrtle, and Tammy Lee Wood.
Host: Autumn Engroff Spencer
Space for this FREE show is limited so click the link below, register for a spot and join us to watch some of your favorite stories and participate in a live Q &A with the storytellers!
In the fall of 2018, Sir David Adjaye and his team at Adjaye Associates, in association with Cooper Robertson, was selected to design a fundamentally new art museum for the Princeton campus. Doing so in the heart of the historic campus provokes exceptionally complex considerations concerning aesthetics, functionality, relationships, and how the design of the new building will express the Art Museum’s purposes and ambitions.
Every Friday, 8am beginner, 12pm Conversation
Live weekly Spanish class by Stella Lillig. https://www.facebook.com/rosella.spanish/
Every Friday, 8am beginner, 12pm Conversation
Live weekly Spanish class by Stella Lillig. https://www.facebook.com/rosella.spanish/
Join us every week for David Copperfield virtual book discussions.
We will meet virtually using Zoom every Tuesday evening at 6:30 PM for the next 13 weeks to discuss one of Charles Dickens’ most loved novels: David Copperfield. Join us for as many as you can.
For meeting info: register here or email rthompson@burlingtonvt.gov