Events
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Songwriters Share Space
Join Connor Lin Frost, professional producer, musician, songwriter, and educator for Songwriters Share Space. Get professional feedback from Connor on a work-in-progress song of yours, as well as fellow songwriters here in the Shelburne community. This will be a safe, welcoming, creative environment meant to encourage you to gain different perspectives and insight on your…
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Pierson Playdate
Looking for a place for your little one to play on chilly winter days? Join us in Town Hall for fun, frolic, and friendship for both littles and their parents/caregivers. Appropriate for ages 2 to 4.
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Noontime Poetry Society
Everyone is welcome at the Noontime Poetry Society. Each Wednesday we meet to read aloud together, taking turns at the lectern to make our way through entire poetry collections and anthologies, one half hour at a time. The second half is devoted to the sharing of original work, other favorite verse pieces, and poetic reflections.…
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After-school Hangout
Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens.
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Teen Advisory Group
Love to read? Help us build a library collection that truly reflects the interests and ambitions of our community! Assist Katie in finding exciting new publications and recent releases, identify gaps in our collection, create eye-catching displays, and plan events! Snacks provided. Recommended ages 11-15.
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Unhoused Voices: A Pop-up Book Club and Community Discussion About Homelessness
Join us for a discussion of Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder. This powerful work follows Dr. Jim O’Connell, a Boston physician who devoted his career to bringing compassionate, street-based health care to people experiencing homelessness. After being asked to delay a prestigious fellowship for a one-year project, O’Connell found his life’s calling—building a model of…
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Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience the magic of music and storytelling at our weekly musical storytime! Join us for an adventure where stories come to life with the power of music. Musician and storyteller Liz Buchanan transports young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination.
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Mahjong Playing Society
Join us for a new way to have fun, make friends, and build community! Mahjong is a tile-based game of skill, luck, and strategy akin to gin rummy. Players draw tiles and form melds. We will be joined by Pauline Nolte, who can instruct players in both Chinese and American mahjong (following the hands and…
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The Great Maple Paint and Sip
Sap is boiling and the scent of sugar is in the air! Create a beautiful maple-themed painting to bring home while taste-testing the different grades of syrup being made in Vermont's own sugar houses! To register, call the library at 802-985-5124.
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Monthly Poetry Salon
Writers, readers, and lovers of all things verse, this is the place to be. Each month we welcome two featured poets who are creating powerful, innovative work in the medium. Come for the inspiration, stay for the community, and revel in an evening of resounding poetics and wild enjambment. Our featured poets this month are…