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It’s Beer-stadt Fest time!
Tickets are $50 each for beer drinkers, free admission for non-beer drinkers. Music by Tom Stamp. Tickets can be purchased HERE, or contact Scott Davis at sdavis@stjathenaeum.org or 802-745-1393.
Purchase Tickets to the Gala HERE.
Come visit the Community Mobile HUB at the Athenaeum with a scavenger hunt and Summer Reading Sign-Up for children and adults. Scavenger Hunt, Story Walk, Angie’s Mobile Arts Cart, Summer Reading Sign-Up, Books, Bookmarks, Big Games and more...
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
Join the Athenaeum Film Fan Club for our monthly movie with free popcorn and soft drinks.
With an introduction by Damian Ryan.
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
What’s Up, Doc? (1972) was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in music. The man seems a bit distracted, and that was before he met a strange woman who has devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers.
In the historic Athenaeum Art Gallery, Continua will share some of their music and members will talk about their experiences providing comfort and support to those facing the end of life.
Continua is a group of volunteer singers who offer bedside sings for patients and their families in private homes, nursing homes, hospitals, and rehabilitation center settings. Continua music includes a large repertoire of songs from many traditions sung by 4-6 singers in unaccompanied three or four-part harmony. Music is selected to speak to a client’s beliefs, musical preferences, and personal needs.
For more information about Continua, please contact Janet Heartson, Continua Administrator at 802-633-3810. Continua welcomes referrals for clients and inquiries about singing with their choir.
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
An exhibition of black and white photographs by David (Asgard) Gilbert is on display in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Hall Gallery through July 5. Gilbert’s second wife, St. Johnsbury native and resident Joan Weston, is the curator of the photographs and now offers them for public view. “David had immense self-confidence; he could teach himself anything,” said Weston. “As the keeper of his photographic legacy, I pledged to myself to show an aspect of his complex story.”
David (Asgard) Gilbert (1938-2021) was born in Waterville, Maine. He joined the Marines and specialized in aerial photography and military intelligence. He attended Colby College, majoring in English.
David earned a reputation for his human-interest photographs as a freelance photographer for the UPI and AP wire services. He covered the war in Vietnam, and also photographed presidents, senators, and other public figures. In contrast to his political and wartime photographs, he enjoyed capturing images of ordinary people on the streets or at work.
In 1968 Gilbert and Weston lived in England, then traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East. During a stop in Israel, David worked for the Jerusalem Post. Their subsequent journey back to the United States included travels by train to countries behind the Iron Curtain, which provided opportunities for more photos.
A map of the couple’s travels is included in the exhibition.
The exhibition is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public through July 7.
Pssst! Feel like your hormones are on a roller coaster? Haven't had a good night's sleep in a while? Has your personal thermostat gone haywire? If you're dealing with peri-menopause or menopause or just curious, come join us for a café-style discussion about the physical and emotional ups and downs of this transitional time. Talk with others who are going through it, will go through it, have gone through it! Refreshments, including chocolate, will be served.
For more information, contact Adele West-Fisher at 802-748-8291 or email awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org.
Sponsored by NVRH and the Athenaeum, this event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
Do you live off the grid? Do you have experience setting up your own off-grid systems? Do you need advice from someone who does? Come check out the Off-Grid Roundtable! It is held the first Saturday of every month in the upstairs gallery at the St Johnsbury Athenaeum at 1pm. Current off-gridders, people who are thinking about off-grid living or homesteading, or people who are just interested in learning more are welcome.
In May the topic will be solar electricity, with special guest Richard Nicol from Solartech in Sutton, VT.
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
WE seeks what unites us, how to change our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion, by seeing past egos to souls. April will read from WE and share stories of being a bridge. She will invite the audience to share personal stories of positive interactions with people you know or have met, whose politics may differ from yours, but with whom you shared a moment of mutual humanity.
April Ossmann is the author of WE (Red Hen Press), Event Boundaries (a Vermont Book Award finalist), and Anxious Music (both Four Way Books), and recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant. She has published her poems widely, and is an independent editor at www.aprilossmann.com. She has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College, was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 – 2008, and lives in White River Junction, VT.
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.
Join us for a dog-themed storytime event. Bring your pet stuffies and enjoy animal stories, coloring and craft.
All families are welcome.
Programming change: there will be no live animals.
This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.