While March brings with it the promise of new life, for many it can be an isolating and difficult month. Promises of Spring is a community art series with events falling on each Saturday in March. This event series acknowledges the idea that art and performance are essential to the foundations of resilient and connected communities. This series will provide a place for people to gather, to understand new perspectives, to meet our neighbors and ultimately, to create the relationships that sustain us throughout the year.
Join us for a reader’s theater of The Animal’s Case Against Humanity Lead by Sister Gail Worcelo. In this fable, eloquent representatives of all members of the animal kingdom--from horses to bees--come before the respected Spirit King to complain of the dreadful treatment they have suffered at the hands of humankind. During the ensuing trial, where both humans and animals testify before the King, both sides argue their points ingeniously, deftly illustrating the validity of both sides of the ecology debate. The ancient antecedents of this tale are thought to have originated in India, with the first written version penned in Arabic sometime before the 10th century in what is now Iraq. Much later, this version of the story was translated into Hebrew in 14th century France and was popular in European Jewish communities into the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The performance will be followed by a short discussion lead by Sister Gail Worcelo.
*Tea and refreshments will be served
Reader’s Theater of The Animal’s Lawsuit Against Humanity
Saturday March 1, 2025 at 3:00pm
Fellowship Hall, Greensboro United Church of Christ
165 E Craftsbury Rd, Greensboro, VT 05841
Open to all ages
Vermont-based painter Arista Alanis will be leading an art workshop for the whole family. In this workshop we will be creating styrofoam prints, a printmaking method that is safe and easy for kids and also engaging for adults. Parents can feel free to make a print of their own, help their kid or sit back, read and enjoy some refreshments.
*We will provide some aprons, but please wear clothes that you are okay with getting messy in.
Family Art Workshop with Arista Alanis
Saturday March 8, 2025 at 1:00pm
Fellowship Hall at Greensboro United Church of Christ
165 E Craftsbury Rd, Greensboro, VT 05841
Open to all ages.
Reclaim the Rain: Community Sculpture Build
Saturday March 15, 2025 at 4:00pm
Fellowship Hall at Greensboro United Church of Christ
165 E Craftsbury Rd, Greensboro, VT 05841
Open to all ages.
During the WonderKids afterschool program at Wolcott Elementary, Hardwick Elementary and Craftsbury Academy, students have been creating the Elements of Joy Sculpture Garden; making works of art that emphasize the joy and positive aspects of each of nature's four elements
We invite you to join this project by creating the final elements of these sculptures. Come prepared to craft!
*Tea and refreshments will be provided
Fiddle Lecture with Peter Schumann
Saturday March 22, 2025, at 4:00pm
Fellowship Hall at Greensboro United Church of Christ
165 E Craftsbury Rd, Greensboro, VT 05841
Open to all ages
Come join us for a fiddle lecture from Bread and Puppet Founder Peter Schumann. Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest self-supporting non-profit theater groups in the country. Peter has been living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since 1974, when he moved the Bread and Puppet Theater up here from Manhattan. Ever since, Peter’s principles of performance and Cheap Art have become a cornerstone of Vemont’s artistic and cultural makeup.
The fiddle lecture will be followed by a performance by musicians Polash and Pavitra. Polash and Pavitra are artists and musicians practicing the Baul tradition under the guidance of their gurus Parvathy Baul and Alihim Fakir of West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. In VT, they have had the pleasure of performing with the Bread and Puppet Theater. They now live in the Northeast Kingdom.
Reading with author Ann Dávila Cardinal
Saturday March 29, 2025 at 5:00pm
Fellowship Hall at Greensboro United Church of Christ
165 E Craftsbury Rd, Greensboro, VT 05841
This event is suitable for adults on
Join us for a reading with award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal. Ann is a Nuyorican, Vermont-based author with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including father and son poets Virgilio and José Antonio Dávila, and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Dávila.
Ann has published numerous adult and young adult novels including Five Midnights, Category Five, Breakup From Hell, The Storyteller’s Death and We Need No Wings. Ann co-wrote Hispanic Star: Bad Bunny with activist Claudia Romo Edelman, which was published in 2024. Her next YA novel, a horror comedy titled You’ve Awoken Her, will be coming on June 17, 2025. Ann lives in Vermont with her husband in a lovely little house with a massively creepy basement.
*Tea and refreshments will be provided