
Upcoming Events
May, 2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter (PG-13)
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
Find out more »June, 2023
Speech Thomas Documentary
The 2023 Bookstock Festival of Words features the theme: “Voices On the Village Green” and includes a three-day festival featuring free public conversations on key issues with renowned authors, poets and storytellers. Speakers include: The New Yorker Satirist Andy Borowitz; two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning recording artist Speech Thomas; National Book Award and Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Joseph J. Ellis; USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and biographer Susan Page; #1 New York Times bestselling author Bill Gifford; Garrett Award for Fiction winner and environmental journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman; Kirkus Review Best Book award winner Emily Bernard; American writer and indigenous storyteller Joseph Bruchac; Oprah Pick and Maine Book Award bestselling author Susan Conley; former Poet Laureate of Vermont Chard deNiord; New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall; 2021 Vermont Book Award winner Melanie Finn; poet, Los Angeles Times columnist Jacques Leslie; novelist, biographer and critic Jay Parini; bestselling author and contributing editor to Vanity Fair Jeff Sharlet; and New York Times bestselling author Ilyon Woo Speakers include three current Vermont Book Award finalists: YA author Jo Knowles; Pushcart Prize Winning fiction writer Peter Orner; and critically acclaimed poet Bianca Stone.
Find out more »Upper Valley Chamber Orchestra
Join Upper Valley Music Center’s longest-running adult ensemble for an evening of stirring and spirited 20th-century music. Soprano Chiho Kaneko joins the orchestra for Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, featuring poetry by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff. The ensemble will be joined by pianist William Ogmundson and harpist Sorana Scarlat for Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The Upper Valley Chamber Orchestra features more than 40 musicians from throughout the region, led by Conductor Mark Nelson.
Find out more »Barbershop Harmony Society Concert
Join us for an evening of lively music featuring two acclaimed choruses. The North Country Chordsmen and the VoxStars are two choruses singing a cappella music in the Hanover, NH Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The Chordsmen are a low voice group that entertains in the barbershop style. The VoxStars are a mixed voice chorus that performs contemporary a cappella songs. Come hear songs like Sweet Caroline, Can't Stop the Feeling, and Seven Bridges Road!
Find out more »Newtok
Newtok is part of the Sustainable Woodstock Climate Change and Sustainability Film Series June 19-23, 2022 Free Virtual Screening. Register for Newtok here: newtok.eventbrite.com In Person Screening: Thursday, June 22 at 6:00 pm Woodstock Town Hall Theatre Water will erase Newtok, Alaska. Built on a delta at the edge of the Bering Sea, the tiny Yup’ik village has been dealing with melting permafrost, river erosion and decaying infrastructure for decades. To keep their culture and community intact, the 360 Yup’ik…
Find out more »July, 2023
Performing Arts Camp
Sharon Groblicki and Nancy Boymer direct Pentangle Arts Summer Performing Arts Camp, with musical direction by Bob Merrill. This year’s program features songs and scenes from Broadway Musicals and will continue to focus on vocal technique and presentation, drama, improvisational theater, singing, and choreography. Classes are for children ages 8-16. Activities are indoors and outdoors. In addition, there will be some time allocated for swimming at the Woodstock Recreation Center - weather and social distance guidelines permitting - after lunch most days. The cost of the camp includes a $10 Camp T-Shirt and a $15 Weekly Pass to the Woodstock Recreation Center Pool.
Find out more »October, 2023
Circle of Poison
When the U.S. government bans a chemical deeming it harmful to its citizens, companies are still allowed to produce it for export only. Circle of Poison exposes this disturbing federal policy that sends a message to the world that American lives are more valuable, taking a global look at communities impacted by the export of toxic pesticides and how they are fighting back.
Find out more »November, 2023
Microplastic Madness
Microplastic Madness is the story of 56 fifth graders from P.S. 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn - living on the frontline of the climate crisis - whose actions on plastic pollution morph into extraordinary leadership and scalable victories.
Find out more »December, 2023
First We Eat
Putting food sovereignty to the test in the far North of Canada – filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, living just 300 km from the Arctic Circle, removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house.
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