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Spring has finally sprung, and there's no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect learn and have a good time. We've compiled seven must-do events including a performance by storied Black modern dance troupe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Fine arts and student performances at area colleges

Fine arts and student performances at area colleges

Fine arts and student performances at area colleges

Four renowned authors will visit App State’s campus — in person and virtually — as part of the spring 2022 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.

Phil Klays first novel “Missionaries” (2020) has just been released in paperback....

A conversation with Patricia Smith Smith will be one of the featured poets at the 2021 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival on April 17. This year’s festival, which will be entirely online, has the theme of “From the Wreckage.” Credit TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press “My last book, Incendiary Art, everyone told me beforehand, was a little bit too rough and there weren’t any moments of light in it,” Smith says. “I think we allow ourselves too many moments of light. I wanted to writ...

Arts events are slowly beginning to bloom, both IRL and online. While it may be April Fools Day, these five offerings are seriously worth a look. We may not be where wed like to be with in-person events yet, but lets hear it for the artists and venues who have met the Zoom challenge with innovation, thoughtfulness, and lots of heart. As our college town grows nearer to the end of the spring semester, give a little extra love to all of the arts students who managed to create magic in the midst ...

Novelist Carter Sickels: Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, March 18, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, May 20, 2021 (All day) Reading from THE PRETTIEST STAR and Craft Talk: Writing with Empathy (45 minutes) Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, published by Hub City Press (2020). Among other honors, The Prettiest Star has been named a Kirkus Best Book of 2020, a Finalist for the Southern Book Prize, Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine, one of the Womens ...