Visible in Vermont: Our Stories Our Voices focuses on the experiences of people of color throughout the state of Vermont, challenging racial microaggressions and the racists acts and behaviors that often go unchecked.

This project is an opportunity for dialogue and reflection for majority white communities who are unaware of the impact that their racial actions have on our community.

Sha’an Mouliert will lead a panel and community discussion.

Visible in Vermont: Our Stories Our Voices is a project of The Root Social Justice Center.

Looking for something to do on a Friday night?

Then come play around at the Athenaeum!

Board games galore!

Play ours or bring your own.

Bring your friends

Adults, youth, and kids

Everyone Welcome!

At the Stuart Black Box Theater, St. Johnsbury Academy

Dr. Phillips is the author of Martha Graham’s Cold War, which explores the international political life of Martha Graham to promote the United States in over thirty nations for every presidential administration from Franklin Roosevelt through George H.W. Bush.

Sponsored by the Ned & Sarah Handy Fund for Dance in collaboration with Catamount Arts, The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, and Kingdom County Productions.

Come enjoy traditional and holiday tunes. Festive treats and cider to help celebrate the season!

This event is free and accessible.

Musical performers include the St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltones at the direction of Alan Rowe; harpist Bill Tobin; and various local musical groups. Also featuring a reading by Nat Tripp. Refreshments courtesy of the Friends of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

Losang Tendar (Simon de Boer) was born in the Netherlands in 1961 and was ordained in January 2002 at Bodhgaya. Join us for an inspirational evening talk as Venerable Tendar discusses life as a    Buddhist monk, how he came to be on this path, and what it all means!

Hosted by: Milarepa Center -  Barnet, VT.

Info: 802-633-4136; https://milarepacenter.org/calendar/; 802-223-3338; https://www.kellogghubbard.org/

Open to everyone. By donation.

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos will travel St. Johnsbury to provide training and facilitate discussion on Vermont's transparency laws; Vermont's Public Records Act, and Open Meeting Law.

Government officials at all levels, from local volunteer board and commission members, to elected officials and state employees, and interested members of the public, are invited and encouraged to attend.

This year's Transparency Tour will include an overview of Vermont's election procedures, and the steps the Secretary of State's office is taking to ensure the integrity and security of our elections.

"The public's right to know is enshrined in our Vermont Constitution. Vermonters deserve openness and transparency in government." – Secretary of State Jim Condos

This event is free and accessible.

Would you take off on a cross country trip in an all-electric car, not knowing where you could re-charge it? Duane Leffel did. Come listen to him describe his grueling 44-day journey from Charleston, South Carolina to San Francisco with a group of other electric vehicle owners as they attempt to set four Guinness World Records.

Handicapped accessible and free to the public.

There are three important aspects of meditation: mindful attention, open awareness and loving kindness. By practicing these we can let go of negative mental patterns and expand our heart and mind, bringing about joy, peace and inner freedom. Anam Thubten will teach and guide participants in developing these three aspects of meditation and share Buddhist wisdom on working with our thoughts and emotions.

Suggested donation is $15, to support the Dharmata Foundation, NOT the Athenaeum.

To register, contact Anne McLellan at annemclellan1@gmail.com or call 508-904-0332.

For more infomation go to www.dharmata.org.

Join friends at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum on Tuesday, August 6 at 7:00 PM to honor Elka and Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater.

 Professor John Bell, Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and long-time Bread and Puppet performer, will speak on the importance of Bread and Puppet Theater in the history of puppetry and pageant.  Elka and Peter will be presented with keys to the Athenaeum, and a short performance will follow.  A festive gathering with beer, wine, and bread and aioli will conclude the event.

 Peter Schumann describes their work this way:  "We are the Bread & Puppet Theater because we offer good old sourdough rye bread together with a great variety of puppetshows, some good, some not so good, but all for the good and against the bad. The art of puppetry helps women, men and children alike to overcome the established order and the obsessive submission to its politics and consequent brutalities."

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The  Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

Join fellow Vermonters in your community to learn about how the state has handled questions of development and progress in the past, and how we might use those lessons to discuss a path forward to the future. The programs will open with Northern Vermont University professor Paul Searls , who will review themes and events featured in his newly-published book Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the Twentieth Century.

Following Searls’s presentation, attendees will be invited to share their own perspectives on their communities.

 For more information on the project, including how you can host your own community conversation, click here.                                                                  
A joint project of VHS and the Vermont Department of Libraries. Support provided by the Vermont Humanities Council and Northern Vermont University. 

Charles Fergus is a local author whose historical mystery A Stranger Here Below (Skyhorse Publishing, NY) is set in 1830s America. Its title is drawn from a shape-note hymn, a distinctive form of American music popular in the early nineteenth century. Fergus will read from the novel and explain why he set his story in central Pennsylvania’s ironmaking region during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.

 Fergus believes that good mysteries should deal with important issues and timeless truths, and his talk will also explore the question: “Can mystery fiction be thoughtful, literary, and profound?”

 Copies of A Stranger Here Below  will be for sale by Boxcar & Caboose. Free and open to the public. Handicapped Accessible.

Come enjoy tea, finger foods and good company, hosted by the Friends of the Athenaeum.

$20 per person. All proceeds benefit the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. RSVP by July 8 to Adele West-Fisher at awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org or 802-745-1391.Come enjoy tea, finger foods and good company, hosted by the Friends of the Athenaeum.

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The  Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The  Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

This event has very limited seating, so sign up now! Register at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/sjai (click on EVENTS), or contact Scott Davis at sdavis@stjathenaeum.org or call 802-745-1393.

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The  Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The  Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

Come celebrate Poem Town and National Poetry Month on Wednesdays at Noon during April. Share your original poetry or poetry from a favorite poet. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy the poetry and gallery space.

Join us for a lively panel discussion as four local authors discuss Hot Topics in Young Adult Literature. Panelists include Beth Kanell, Don Bredes, C. A. Morgan (Cynthia Dekett), and David Stahler, moderated by Kim Crady-Smith from Green Mountain Books. This event is free to the public and handicapped accessible. For more information, contact Adele West-Fisher, Coordinator of Library Services at awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org or 802-748-8291.

Come celebrate Poem Town and National Poetry Month on Wednesdays at Noon during April. Share your original poetry or poetry from a favorite poet. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy the poetry and gallery space.

Have you ever wondered about that place off of Route 5 in Barnet with the really steep driveway and all the colorful flags? And what about that monument thing on the hill that overlooks the Interstate? Are they part of the other Buddhist place in Barnet? Come learn all about Milarepa Center; who we are, what we do, why we do it, and more! Join Milarepa Center director Dawn Holtz for a discussion about these questions and more! Bring your own questions and your curiosity! Hope to see you there!

April Meeting topic: Spices
Come join Chef Alex McGregor in an informal discussion of the uses, history, and medicinal properties of spices. Cooks, non-cooks, everyone welcome!

Come celebrate Poem Town and National Poetry Month on Wednesdays at Noon during April. Share your original poetry or poetry from a favorite poet. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy the poetry and gallery space.

Celebrate Women’s History Month. Borrow and read Remarkable Minds: 17 more pioneering women in science & medicine OR a book of your choice about women in science (even picture books count). Join us for lively discussion about these inspirational women.  All ages welcome. Bring your own brown bag dinner or snacks. Drinks will be provided.

"I don't do anything wrong, why should I worry about data privacy?" The false equivalency of privacy and doing something bad is heard less and less as years pass in the Information Age.

Please join us at the St Johnsbury Athenaeum on Thursday March 7th at 6pm, to hear from Community Tech Support staff Andrew Hatfield about easy steps you can take and tools you can use to improve your data privacy. A brief Q&A session will be held afterwards.

Andrew is available during Tech Support sessions every Thursday from 5-7pm at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

Come spend the evening with Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, and Dina Merrill. 

The fun is just beginning when a TV-network researcher with an amazing memory humors an efficiency expert sent to improve her department. (1957)

Coming Home is a documentary film focused on five people returning back to their Vermont communities from prison. The film focuses on the innovative COSA program (Circle of Support and Accountability) that helps reintegrate folks back into their daily lives. The COSA program is run through Vermont's Community Justice Centers and is part of the restorative justice model.

 Coming Home is a film that takes an intimate and powerful look at this COSA process, the struggles and challenges of folks coming out of prison and the successes of the restorative justice model.

Do you like food?  Do you like talking about food?  Alex McGregor, a local chef, will lead us in a
discussion of all things food.

January Meeting Topic: Knife Sharpening Demonstration

Bring a soup recipe to share.