Details at https://www.greenmountainbookfestival.org/

Meet artist Ashley Roark, creator of the Library's newest installation artwork:  There's an open seat for you.  Light refreshments provided.

Poetry Society of Vermont celebrates its 75th anniversary with readings from its members. Public warmly invited!

(Notes:  Podium, 40 chairs set up for audience)

Judges: Annabel Driussi, Tina Logan, Elisa Järnefelt
Announcer: Annabel Driussi

What is Non-Fiction Cosplay, you ask? Dress up as ANYTHING (family-friendly) that exists or existed in real life! A hot dog, dinosaur, Abraham Lincoln, a tube of toothpaste, your favorite native plant… get creative with it!

Prizes for best costume in Kids, Teens, and Adults.

Presenters: Marek Bennett, Teresa Mares, Michelle Sayles.
Moderator: Luis Vivanco

Vermont Humanities selected The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists as the Vermont Reads book for 2022. This panel will open with a short film produced by VT Humanities featuring several of the migrant worker storytellers featured in the book, followed by a discussion between Bennett, Mares and Sayles about the project and the people it highlights.

Interview with James Spooner
Interviewer: Bobby Hackney Jr. of Rough Francis

Panelists: Glynnis Fawkes, Ellen Lindner, Caroline Hu, Dan Nott
Moderator: Issac Cates

In this panel, we’ll discuss ways to dramatize and imagine historical, scientific, and political scenarios while remaining accurate to facts. As in "drawing the right hat on the postman" in an imagined scene, as well as what it means to imagine a scene at all. We’ll explore the role of imagination and metaphor in Non-fiction.

Panelists: Rachel Lindsay, Jennifer Hayden, Jesse Lambert, James Kochalka
Moderator: Robyn Chapman

The job of the graphic memoirist is to reconstruct their life on the comic page. Whether they’re documenting everyday observations or unimaginable experiences, how do they go about drawing stories that are relatable and meaningful? Join Jennifer Hayden (The Story of My Tits), Rachel Lindsay (RX: A Graphic Memoir), Jesse Lambert (American Cult), and moderator Robyn Chapman (The Mini Memoir Project) as they discuss the art and craft of autobiographical comics.

Families are invited to talk, play, read, write and sing while exploring a range of themes and rotating activities designed to promote school readiness, encourage creativity, and healthy development. 

Ages 0-5 with adult

Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics activities. Ages 5-11.