Reception for “All Creatures Great and Small”
The public is invited to an opening reception for "All Creatures Great and Small" at 3 Pears Gallery on the Dorset Green, Saturday, February 15, from 1 - 4 pm. Enjoy a glass of the gallery’s signature pomegranate prosecco punch and munch on delicious nibbles as you delight in a menagerie of the wild and the domesticated, expressed in a...
The Chowder Challenge
The Chowder Challenge is less then two weeks away! Please join us on Saturday February 8th from 5:00pm-7:30pm for our first ever Chowder Challenge! This event will be held at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT and will benefit The Dorset Equine Rescue. We are offering two categories, a Professional Division and an Amateur Division. Each will be...
Designing Women: The Colonial Revival at Shelburne Museum
Green Mountain Academy welcomes back associate curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff to talk about the Colonial Revival at Shelburne Museum. This was manifested in the development of a 45-acre campus populated with buildings and objects ranging from hatboxes to furniture, installed in period rooms and galleries meant to inspire visitors to recall a collective colonial past. This talk will survey the...
Conserving Lands, Transforming Lives: A Vermonter’s View of the Student Conservation Association
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam, the Founding President of the Student Conservation Association. More than 60 years ago, with America’s national parks in danger of being “loved to death,” the Student Conservation Association (SCA) formed to help protect overwhelmed public lands and provide young people with the benefits of hands-on service and experience....
Dorset Farmers Market
Dorset is home to a year-round farmers market, offering fresh vegetables and fruits, home baked breads and pastries, artisan cheeses, wines and spirits, grass-fed beef, canned goods and pickled produce, hot foods, Vermont crafts, and more from more than 50 local area producers. Learn more about our farmers market.
Nunsense II: The Second Coming
Dorset Players present Nunsense II: The Second Coming, the sequel to the international hit, Nunsense. The same five nuns are back on stage at Mt. Saint Helen's School for what is billed as a "Thank You Program" for their supporters. Forced to work around the set of The Mikado (being presented next week by the local music society), the nuns...
On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond, a live performance presented by Dorset Players, tells the story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, an aging couple who are spending the summer at their home on Golden Pond. Ethel and Norman are visited by their daughter Chelsea, her fiancé Bill Ray, and his son Billy Ray Jr. The play explores the often turbulent relationship that Chelsea...
The Tortoise Versus The Hare
Dorset Players welcome the Missoula Children's Theatre for a special performance of The Tortoise Versus The Hare. Somewhere in desert country, the inhabitants of West Sandy Bottoms are preparing for the highlight of their year – the annual race between arch enemies, the Mammals and the Reptiles. As the race progresses, a tiny bunny is lost in the wilds of...
A Christmas Carol
Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future for a live performance of A Christmas Carol, presented by Dorset Players. This holiday classic returns to the Dorset Playhouse, infusing traditional holiday music and dance in what is sure to be a festive outing for all this holiday season. Directed by Don Petersen, this performance follows various ghosts as they...
Nor’easter Merck Forest Ultra
Do you have what it takes to finish the toughest sanctioned snowshoe race in the world? The Nor'easter Merck Forest Ultra presented by Dion Snowshoes will begin March 1 at Merck Forest & Farmland Center in Rupert. The event includes 25k or 50k options, or a walker-friendly option with an 8-hour cutoff. Find more information and register for the Nor'easter...
