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CALENDAR LISTINGS FOR Monday, February
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WILMINGTON Nicki Steel's Photography: Steel's show focuses on her Hearts in Nature series and New Works and Directions. Her selection of photos highlights landscapes and scenery from the Deerfield Valley, all available for purchase - traditional cards, mini-matted pieces, framed enlargements, new items. Steel has been partnering with Jess Cronin from Cronin Company and Haley Frano from Studio Lane Ltd. to create coasters and boxed sets of smaller cards. Her "Winter Birds" boxed cards proved so popular through the holidays that she has expanded the line to now also include a Hearts in Nature set, with 12 different images of stones, cows, peaches, and more. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily. Through Sunday, February 28. Free. Bartlebys Books, 17 W. Main St. Information: 802-464-5425; Click for more info on Web in new window.
BRATTLEBORO Museum Mondays: Tours and activities at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center led by Museum Director Danny Lichtenfield. 3:30 - 5 p.m. on Mondays. Meet beforehand at the Boys & Girls Club and everyone will walk over together. Free. Boys & Girls Club, 17 Flat St. Information: 802-254-5990, renee.woliver@bgcbrattleboro.org.
National Alliance on Mental Illness - Vermont Mental Health Advocacy Day (Virtual): Welcome Addresses from State leaders will be followed by a Keynote Plenary Session from Chackupurackai Mathai: "Embracing Our Lived Experience Leadership." The afternoon will be an opportunity for the community to share their mental health experiences and stories with the Legislative Committees. Event runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Share your insights via a lived experience story or poem with other attendees between 12:30-2 p.m. (2-3 min. block per person - share live during the Zoom meeting or send in a pre-recorded video). Register to Share Your Story: https://forms.zohopublic.com/namivermont/form/ 2021AdvocacyDaySharingOurStories/formperma/ RrQA1DEuAnNJvB4If2hM93FvBFsj7Yk60aFmdNP-DFg. Free. Zoom. Information: Register for Advocacy Day/more info: https://namivt.org/advocacy/advocacy-day.
BRATTLEBORO Veggie Van Go (Vermont Food Bank): Free produce and local food for people to take home. 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot across street from main entrance. Drive through model: Stay in your vehicles. If you are walking: See a VT Foodbank associate but stay 6 ft. back. No income requirements, registration, paperwork to participate. You do not need to be present to get food - you may ask someone to pick up on your family's behalf. Upcoming schedule: Mondays: 2/15, 3/1, 3/15, 4/5, 4/19, 5/3, 5/17, 6/7, 6/21. Brattleboro Union High School, 131 Fairground Rd. Information: Questions: Kira Sawyer-Hartigan, WSESU Veggie Van Go Program Coord: 802-254-3730, ksawyer-hartigan@wsesdvt.org.
