Funny Girl
Friday 16 & Saturday 17
An Emmy Award-winning comedian and one of Comedy Central’s “Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time,” Paula Poundstone stops by the Dibden Center for the Arts at Northern Vermont University-Johnson and Fuller Hall at St. Johnsbury Academy. The consummate jokester offers up nonstop laughs and witty observations on motherhood, the pandemic and getting older.
Making Merry
Saturday 17
Central Vermonters get their holiday shopping done while supporting the LGBTQ community at a Queer Craft Fair in Barre’s Old Labor Hall. Colorful creativity is on full display at this bustling bazaar featuring more than 30 vendor stalls bursting with zines, pottery, prints, paintings, jewelry, leatherwork, herbal goods and more.
Jingle All the Way
Saturday 17
AO Glass in Burlington’s South End celebrates the season with SleighStop, an artisanal extravaganza of warmth and light, courtesy of those fiery kilns. All-day glassblowing demonstrations supplement a morning of coffee and Nordic baked goods to celebrate Saint Lucia’s Day and afternoon gin drinks by the furnace with Caledonia Spirits.
More Like ‘Skatehouse’
Sunday 18
If you didn’t know that part of the Vermont Statehouse lawn in Montpelier is transforming into an ice rink for the winter, now you know. At the Grand Opening Skating Rink Party, locals hit the ice and sip hot cocoa under the golden dome. The Montpelier Recreation Department lends out skates for those who need them.
To Be, or Maccabee
Sunday 18
Burlington’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue hosts its annual Chanukah Party, an all-ages shindig on the first day of the Festival of Lights. Revelers young and old enjoy a hot chocolate bar, plenty of latkes, games of Kahoot!, raffles and the lighting of the menorah. Donations of kids’ and adults’ socks and gloves are accepted.
Heart and Solstice
Wednesday 21
The darkest night of the year gets a little brighter at Adventure Dinner‘s Winter Solstice Celebration at Middlebury’s Werner Tree Farm. The festive mixer features a fire-stoked fondue feast, hot spiced cider for sipping and an evergreen centerpiece craft, all in a fully decked-out, candlelit barn.
If I Ran the Circus
Ongoing
The Jackson Gallery at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater presents “We’re All at a Party Called Life on Earth,” an art installation by sculpting duo Frobertan, aka Fran Bull and Robert Black. A brightly painted array of characters evokes circus vibes across history, from commedia dell’arte to carnival to Greek drama.
This article appears in Dec 14-20, 2022.
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