Vt. Folklife Center offering online events

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Folklife Center will host a series of four online presentations in conjunction with their Summer Institute programming, Aug. 2-13. These virtual events are free and open to the public. Through guided discussions with local educators, artists, and VFC staff, each session will offer a different perspective on how ethnography, an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience, and can inform and strengthen community-based inquiry and knowledge creation. Vis … (read more)

MONTPELIER — Registration is now open for communities to join the Vermont Mural Project. The Community Engagement Lab, Juniper Creative Arts and the Vermont Folklife Center are partners on the statewide project, which features a collaborative mural-making … (read more)

The Vermont Folklife Center and the Pride Center of Vermont announce the opening of “Pride 1983,” a new online exhibit. Through interviews with organizers, photographs and scanned images of historic documents “Pride 1983” explores the origins and lasting … (read more)

The Vermont Folklife Center announces its first virtual gingerbread house competition and exhibit. This ever-popular 22-year annual tradition will continue safely despite the pandemic. “If we can’t all crowd into a room to admire these fantastically creat … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Folklife Center will be holding its annual gingerbread house competition and exhibit virtually this year. The contest is open to anyone living in Vermont, and anyone interested should sing up by Nov. 18 via the VFC website at verm … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Folklife Center recently received $3,500 from the Vermont Community Foundation’s Samara Fund. This year the Fund focused it’s grants on supporting the LGBTQ community in Vermont. The Folklife Center will use the grant to support the “ … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Folklife Center has appointed Alexandra “Sasha” Antohin as the its full-time director of education. “I cannot imagine a more qualified person to lead the center’s education programming to new and exciting places,” said Executive D … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Like many people across the globe, Vermonters have stepped up and started making homemade face masks — both in response to a call for us to wear them while out in public, and to help address the shortage of basic protective equipment for doct … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — While many of our family, friends and neighbors are at work on the front lines — healthcare workers, supermarket employees, emergency responders — a whole lot of us are at home, often with family members, working (or not) and waiting anxiousl … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Elderly Services building off Exchange Street is modern and comfortable, offering a wonderful experience to participants in the nonprofit’s Project Independence adult daycare program. For a day earlier this month, the building took on an … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The theme of the Vermont Folklife Center’s 21st annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit is “Christmas at Hogwarts Castle.” The center at 88 Main St. in Middlebury smells like the holidays with several dozen all-edible pieces of art o … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Time to get ready for the 21st annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Creations will be on display from Thursday, Dec. 5 through Friday, Dec. 20, with an opening reception on Friday, Dec … (read more)