Adult Programs

Join us every week for David Copperfield virtual book discussions. 

We will meet virtually using Zoom every Tuesday evening at 6:30 PM for the next 13 weeks to discuss one of Charles Dickens’ most loved novels:  David Copperfield. Join us for as many as you can. 

Poetry Experience Online

First meeting: April 4, 1pm-3pm

Every Saturday 1-3pm

Poetry Experience is a weekly online writing circle hosted by Poet/Emcee and teaching artist, Rajnii Eddins.  Rajnii Eddins's latest work is Their Names Are Mine.   Join Poetry Experience Online through Zoom each Saturday.  Details are included below and if you have any questions feel free to contact Rajnii at theirnamesaremine@gmail.com 

Suggested Age Group: 14+

April 8, 6:30pm-8pm

Join other readers at this online discussion on Zoom of Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise: Poems Led by poet Florence McCloud.  To join the program, please email Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov by Wedesday, April 8 at 5pm.

About This Month's Book:

Every Wednesday, 6:30pm-8pm

Please contact Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov for more information.

April 3, 7pm-8:45pm

Richard Blanco reads from his recent poetry collection How to Love a Country, exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, unraveling the fabric of the American narrative in accessible and emotive verses.

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Suggested Age Group: 14+

April 2, 7pm-8:45pm

What is happiness? Can it be measured? And what is the relationship between happiness and virtue, money, pleasure, relationships, mindfulness, and satisfaction? This program with William Edelglass will begin with an overview of different conceptions of happiness in Western philosophy, religion, and political theory. We will then turn to the numerous claims about what makes us happy based on the results of “the new science of happiness.” We will conclude by reflecting on the findings of positive psychology in the context of the history of the idea of happiness.

April 1, 7pm-8:45pm

Through her award-winning films The Hungry Heart, All of Me, and Coming Home, documentary filmmaker Bess O’Brien reveals stories often hidden in Vermont communities. Bess discusses how documentary storytelling can help generate empathy and positive change in Vermont.

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Suggested Age Group: 14+

March 31, 7pm-8:45pm

Reuben Jackson, jazz scholar and former host of VPR’s Friday Night Jazz, shares some evocative Ellington recordings and discusses Ellington’s love for trains and the role they played in his orchestra’s work in the then-segregated United States.

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Suggested Age Group: 14+

March 30, 7pm-8:45pm

From Charlotte’s Web to his exquisite essays in The New Yorker, E. B. White remains the master’s master of elegant prose, sophisticated wit, and graceful irreverence. Drawing on his stories, essays, poems, and letters, Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine celebrates White’s versatility and enormous legacy.

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Suggested Age Group: 14+