CVU: Transition Intensive Class

A  reading in honor of BHS Creative Writing muse Gladys LaFlamme Colburn will be held on July 9 from 2:00pm-3:30pm.

Poetry, very short fiction/essays, and acoustic music is welcome at the mic. Time allowed per reader / performer depends on how many sign up, but probably 3-5 minutes each.

Listeners are Very Welcome! Please also consider bringing a short anecdote about Gladys herself, or the effect of her Creative Writing class on your life.

A 4-week program called Make New Friends for girls entering Kindergarten and First Grade in the fall.

A 4-week program called Make New Friends for girls entering Kindergarten and First Grade in the fall.

Banjo Meetup

Poet Kerrin McCadden, who will read from her most recent collection, “American Wake.”

Black History Month celebration, poetry reading, music

Poetry reading. Tin Whistle program. Music lecture

Almost forgotten today is James Edmund Burke, long time mayor of Burlington, sometime city representative to the state legislature, and one-time candidate for governor. When he died in 1942 at age 93, he was eulogized as a “city builder “and as the “Grand Old Man of the Democratic Party”. He came to prominence in the 1890s and steered the emergence of Burlington’s large Irish American community into a leadership role in local politics. Through it all he was an uncompromising, take-no-prisoners politician.

Preceding the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival film showing, the BIHF will present a variety of local musical talent, including song, fiddle & dance