Please join the Peacham Historical Association and the Peacham Library for their Summer Series. Chief Don Stevens and Susan Chandler: "Abenaki in Peacham: a Conversation on Abenaki history, culture and community"
A day of festive celebration for poets, poetry lovers, friends and family. Featuring Joseph and Jesse Bruchac, Youth Poet Laureates, Poetry in Prisons presentations, and much more.
Join Harwood ACLU club and Joslin Library to take action and learn from students, ACLU-VT staff members, and lawyers about 3 key issues the ACLU works on: Immigrant Rights, Trans Rights, & Housing Rights.
The Town and Community Organizations of Isle La Motte invite you to a day honoring the bravery, sacrifice, and fortitude of our Revolutionary War soldiers, and the legacy of the region’s early settlers.
Exhibit Opening: “We the Unseen People: An artist and historian explore the archives”
The Barnet Library welcomes Andrew Silver, star of the Silver Circus on Saturday, September 12 for circus arts workshops and a performance!
Join us on September 17 to learn to ferment your own veggies. Beki Auclair from VT Ferments will join us and discuss how to prep, salt and spice our own veggies (or those from your favorite farmers). You will go home with a jar of your own creation to watch it ferment.
The Literacy Spark and The Dyslexic Positive Libraries will be tabling at Mosaic Vermont’s Rainbow Harvest Festival on Saturday, September 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the Vermont Statehouse Lawn.
Please join us for the first event in our new In Conversation series, bringing acclaimed writers to the Campus at Marlboro Music for readings and discussion. In this series Authors, poets, historians, and essayists will explore questions through the lens of literature, history, memory, place, ethics, creativity, and civic life. Rather than traditional book talks or readings, each gathering is built around conversation—an opportunity to listen deeply, ask questions, and consider multiple perspectives in the company of others.
Carol McGranaghan is a member of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi. She will give a presentation on the indigenous plants used traditionally by Abenaki for medicine, art, and food. Her presentation includes a slide show featuring native Vermont plants, their uses, and the parts utilized. She includes information on how to harvest while honoring our rooted relations and the pollinators who depend on them.
Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
