Welcome the NEW YEAR
Let’s hope this year 2009 brings more fortune and good news than the last!!!
Beginner Yoga
Looking to try something new? Would you like to learn yoga as a tool to help manage stress and improve focus? Learn enjoyable and easy to do breathing exercises, postures and relaxations that can benefit you from head to toes! Join certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, Sylvia Kabusk for this class designed specifically for the middle-school student. No flexibility is required. You may pre-register for one or all of the classes. Mondays - January 12th, January 26th, February 2nd, February 9th, March 9th, March 16th, March 23rd and March 30th at 3:45 p.m. Space is limited to 15. Wear comfortable clothing. For students in grades 5-8. Registration is required.
BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES: Imagine if You Were Poor Like Me
We will have a screening of the documentary Imagine if You Were Poor Like Me produced by CCTV and Mercy Connections which features several Vermont women talking about living in poverty. Bring a lunch, tea and dessert will be served.Wednesday, January 14th at noon.
Sex Talk with Sue Johanson
January 16, 2009, 8:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.Davis Student Center, The Grand Maple Ballroom, University of Vermont, BurlingtonCost: $5 with UVM ID, $15 community. Sue Johanson is Canada's foremost sexual educator and counselor, recipient of the distinguished Order of Canada. For the last 30 years, she has provided frank and honest sexual education to thousands of Canadians through her lectures, radio programs, and the Sunday Night Sex Show on television.
Brothers and Sisters in Selma: Vermont Catholic Activism in the Civil Rights EraMonday, January 19, 2009, 7:00 pm St. Michael's College, 1 Winooski Park, Colchester, VTContact: (802)479-8500 or
vhs-info@state.vt.us Program on Vermont Catholic activism during the Civil Rights Era.
Speaking From Experience Series with Rich Jr. and Jerry TarrantJanuary 20, 2009, 7 p.m. Champlain College, Aiken Hall, Morgan Room, Burlington
Join Rich Jr. and Jerry Tarrant, serial entrepreneurs and co-founders of mywebgrocer, a Colchester-based company that provides e-commerce and e-marketing services to more than 80 retail grocery chains as they talk about their entrepreneurial experiences in creating several successful businesses. Mywebgrocer was founded in 1999 based on a strong belief in the viability of the online grocery business. The company's core services include: website design, hosting, email, on-line circulars, recipes, personalized offers and, ecommerce. The Tarrants have an impressive record as entrepreneurs in the retail, real estate, and the health care industries.
Guinea through the Eyes of a Peace Corps Volunteer
Take a trip in your mind to Guinea, West Africa and see a side of Africa you do not normally see in the news. Mara Hayes, a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, will talk about her experiences living in a village of 3,300 Guineans for two year and then in the regional capital, Kan Kan for a year and a half. In her travels she met with extreme generosity, hospitality, desperation, fear, laughter, and unstoppable tears. In her presentation, Mara will bring alive what it was like to take a 16-hour bus ride with 30 people in a bus made for 12 and to eat a meal of rice and sauce with your hands sitting around a bowl of food with 15 others. She will bring some of the beauty and warmth from Africa to you. January 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Café Scientifique -- Nanotechnology: Size Does MatterJan 22, 2009, 6:30 pm-9:00 pm Burlington Contact: (802)324-3686With Dr. Dennis Clougherty, Department of Physics, University of Vermont.
Serving Returning Veterans & their FamiliesJanuary 30, 2009, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Capitol Plaza, Montpelier Contact: Traci Sawyers
attracisawyers@bhnvt.org or Diane Robie at
drobie@shoreham.netSponsored by Behavioral Health Network of VT.
Imani Youth Center Food Drive
The Imani Youth Center gives out boxes of food to low income people and families in the community from 2pm-3pm every third Friday of the month. If you feel the pinch of financial restriction and need to make food dollars stretch, get to the Imani Center and get your box of food.
The Old North End Time BankYou're invited to join The Old North End Time Bank, bringing people together to help each other. For more information or to join, check out
http://www.burlingtontimebanks.blogspot.com/ or contact Melissa at
burlington.timebanks@gmail.com, (802) 651-1084.
French-English Conversation GroupSpeakers of Anglais swap syllables with native French speakers in a parlez session. Sundays, November 2 through January 4, 4–5:30PM;
at
Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Free
International Club: Mondays, 3:30-5:00pm, Hauke Boardroom.
STAND: Student Anti-Genocide Coalition: Wednesdays, 4:15-5:15pm, Center for Service & Civic Engagement.
INCLUDE: LGBTQA ALLIANCE: Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00pm, Hauke 203.
Burlington Peace Vigil
Monday through Friday, 5 – 5:30PM
Activists stand together in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Salsalina Practice
Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Every Wednesday at 6pm at Salsalina Studios in Burlington For more information call (802) 598-1077
Poet’s Jam with Trevien Stenger at Parima Acoustic Lounge in Burlington
Every Monday night at 9:30pm
Jazz Jam at Radio Bean in Burlington FREE every Thursday at 6pm
Reggae Night with Double J & Doobie, Wednesdays, 10pm at JP’s Pub Burlington Free
Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party, Wednesdays, 10pm at Rasputin’s, Burlington. Free
Déjà Vu Ladies Night, Saturdays, 9pm at Second Floor in Burlington. Free
All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic, Saturdays, 5pm at Tabu Café and night club, Plattsburg. Free
Monthly Old North End Community Dinner
All are welcome to the Old North End Community Dinners held the second Thursday of every month, 5:30 pm at the McClure Multi-Generational Center, 241 N. Winooski Avenue (next to the old Dairy Queen). FREE!
For more information call Charlie Giannoni at 660-9870. To donate food or help serve dinner, call Janet Hicks at 863-3860.
A Neighborhood Planning Assembly
(NPA) is held every month for each of Burlington’s wards. If you want to be more involved with and have a say in what is going on in your community, attend a Community Ward NPA. For more information, please go to
http://www.cedoburlington.org/neighborhoods/npa/npas1.htmCommunity Advisory Group
(CAG) is a group that needs the community members to have a part in determining the HIV/AIDS related services that are provided to the residents of Vermont. This group is important in promoting effective HIV/AIDS related care and prevention programs in the state of Vermont. To do this Vermont acts as an advisory group to the Vermont Department of Health HIV/AIDS/STD/HEP C programs on the issues of HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Help make these important decisions and get paid for your time! This membership calls for your involvement and attendance to bi-monthly meetings for which you will also be reimbursed for travel cost i.e. gas money.
Call Michelle Force HIV Prevention Supervisor at (802)863-766
After-School Chess Classes
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