The 50-plus locales range from barns to restaurants to intimate studios.
The events range from the performance and musical to the visual, craft
arts, culinary arts, literary arts and the "art of living." There are
workshops, community events, tours, events for the younger set and
ongoing exhibits throughout The Valley and the month.
Weekly (or semi-weekly) events include the Yestermorrow Lecture Series,
Candy Barr Plein Air Class, Painting at the Parade, World Culinary
Odyssey, India Experience Cooking Class, Pottery Classes with Luke
Iannuzzi at Wilder Farm, Cooking Classes at The Store, Summer Supper at
the Barn Door, Zumba with Roarke Sharlow, Ladies' Golf Clinics, The Big
Flea, Artist Demos at Artisans' Gallery, Warren Library Connections,
Lareau Farm Coloring Contest and Gardening Classes.
Ongoing exhibits include the Big Red Barn Art Show, Design for the
Theater, FLAG and Bridge Street Emporium, Mad River Antler, the Art of
Web Craft, Trio, Photo Show, Purely Pastel, Palettes for Paws, Moosewalk
Studios and various studios.
Historic Waitsfield Village, Bridge Street and Warren Village have
ongoing activities while barns take on an artistic bend. And there's
even a Barns and Covered Bridges Tour on August 8! Phantom Theater in
the Edgcomb Barn has a full schedule: Mama Juggs, Jugglers on the Roof,
Bubble Circus, Circus in Cinema, Magic Toybox. The Commons Group
performs the madcap <MI>Lucky Stiff<D> in the Skinner Barn
while the Knoll Farm Barn hosts the Vermont Poetry Society Annual
Picnic, Barnyard Story Jam and Blueberry Sundays. The Wait House Barn
celebrates its renovation with a wine and cheese social. The Barn Door
Restaurant at the 1824 House features Summer Suppers and wine pairings.
The Open Studio Weekend on August 14 and 15 is a chance to see the
artists in action and in their studios. Look for the Open Studios
"Passport" and signs around town.
The venue that boasts the most events is Big Picture Theater and Cafe.
In addition to their daily roster of movies, menus and entertainment,
this community gathering place hosts a dozen special events, including:
BBQ and Blues on July 30, Robby Fulks, Live, as a prelude to the Valley
Stage Music Fest; Kinderfest and a Children's Film Fest; The Big Flea!;
Karaoke with Cowboy Dan; Circus Minimus; Mad4Music; and the "Palettes
for Paws" exhibit.
Timbers at Sugarbush is the site for A Taste of the Valley on Monday,
August 2. The 2009 Vermont Chef of the Year Gerry Nooney also crafts a
Localvore Community Dinner, the Art in the Garden luncheon and A Feast
for the Arts in Timbers Restaurant. And don't miss the Movies on the
Mountain, Gardening Classes, and Ladies' Golf Clinics. The Gate House
features the prestigious Vermont Young Musicians' Award Concert and Mad
River Chorale's Gala.
The Lareau Farm, home to American Flatbread, hosts visual, performance
and culinary arts at various locales onsite. Look for the Faerie House
workshop, artists "sitting" the Big Red Barn Art Show, jazz in the
restaurant or resident artist Joyce Kahn creating pastels. The Big Red
Barn Opening Reception is on Sunday, August 1, at 5 p.m. The Inn at the
Round Barn hosts The Photo Show in the Round Barn, with an opening
reception on Wednesday, August 4, at 5:30 p.m.
Many inns host an artist-in-residence, and some of the innkeepers are
themselves the artists! Classes: The West Hill House invites plein air
artist Charles Pruitt on-site for a three-day residency/workshop on
August 24 through 26; The Waitsfield Inn offers Moonlight in Vermont
with Barbara Pafume on August 20 through 22; Yellow Farmhouse Inn hosts
Chinese Exercise and Meditation on August 5 and 7 and Gourmet Living
Foods: The Raw Truth on August 8; Luke Iannuzzi offers pottery demos and
workshops in his studio in the backyard of the Wilder Farm Inn;
Innkeeper/violinist Willi Docto reserves to play with the Vermont
Philharmonic in an idyllic setting for their Pops Concert at Moose
Meadow Lodge on August 15.
Some innkeepers get international inspiration in the culinary arts,
while others keep it local. Joan and Thom Gorman of the Millbrook Inn
teach their India Experience Cooking Class every year, where you learn
to make the food from Thom's firsthand brush with spicy authenticity!
Mike and Lisa Lang of the Weathertop Mountain Inn take guests on a World
Culinary Odyssey. Maxine Longmuir and Graham Hewsion share The Art of
the Aga from their English roots with a cooking demo at Aga at The
Sugartree. The Pitcher Inn hosts Cheese is ARTisinal on August 10, and
enjoy Shakepeare on August 20 and 21. At Hostel Tevere, Outdoor Yoga
& Brunch pairs healing arts with the culinary arts.
For more information call Bev Kehoe at (802) 496-6682 or go to www.vermontartfest.com for a complete schedule.
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