PLENTY OF GOOD STUFF, UPPER VALLEY!
Friday
For starters, it’s First Friday in WRJ. Among other things, Kishka Gallery’s opening its exhibition of works by artist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Hambouz, the Main Street Museum’s hosting a jazz invitational with Route 5 Jive providing the music for the monthly Welcome Wagon mixer, Scavenger’s got a show of “People of Golden Threads”, there’s an evening of tarot at Open Door, and Amanda Janoo, who’s running for VT governor as a Democrat, will be at Revolution and then a dance party at The Filling Station with Sir Babygirl as DJ.
The Conniption Fits take the stage at Sawtooth Kitchen. The hard-rocking, party-making trio of frontman and guitarist Stevens Blanchard, bassist Jamie Hosley, and drummer Titien Tolbert and their covers of ‘80s, ‘90s, and contemporary songs. 9 pm.
Saturday
The Norwich Farmers Market is back in Tracy Hall. There are just two more indoor markets before it heads back outside the first weekend in May. This weekend’s lineup includes plenty of baked goods, prepared food, crafts, fresh flowers (potted and bouquets), herbs, early vegetables, milk, cheese, honey, and local meat from Hogwash and other farms. Stop by and fill your pantry with locally produced food—and it’s a good bet there’ll be lots of eggs, bacon, and more for Sunday’s festive meals. 10 am to 1 pm.
A week of egg hunts kicks off at VINS. “Colorful eggs have mysteriously appeared all around VINS,” they write. “This week only, join our center-wide scavenger hunt. Solve riddles to track down each hidden egg and collect clues along the way.” Pick up a worksheet when you arrive.
At the Royalton Memorial Library, Lance Richardson talks about True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. As The New Yorker wrote when Richardson’s biography—the first of the celebrated writer, naturalist, and activist—came out last year, ”Matthiessen liked peril; one could even say he courted it. In the course of a long literary career, during which he wrote thirty-three books and was celebrated for both his fiction and his nonfiction, he travelled to places most writers would never dare to go.” Richardson will talk about the book and Matthiessen’s life at 2 pm at the library in SoRo.
Hop Film screens Lawrence of Arabia. David Lean's epic, with Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence and Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn as co-stars. “There is a white-savior element to the film that speaks to the time it was made, but it is more slippery and morally ambiguous than the typical ‘Great Man’ biopic,” the Hop writes. “The film grapples with a moment in history that ultimately resulted in the state borders in the Middle East we see today.” 2 pm on the big screen in Spaulding.
Contradance to support the Windsor Public Library. Led by pianist and accordionist Amy Englesberg, no experience needed, instruction along the way—plus dinner and a silent auction. Kids free. 5-8 pm at the American Legion in Windsor.
Tunbridge’s Shindigs! close out this season with Sensible Shoes and The Illustrious Subs. Each November-April since 2007, the Shindigs! have been bringing locals together to visit, dance, and celebrate live music in Tunbridge Town Hall—or as they put it, “the simple joy of a great band filling the old Town Hall with music.” Saturday, it’s the ace band of Barbara Blaisdell, Joey Spampinato (NRBQ), Tim Utt, Kami Lyle, and Jerome Deupree, with their own and others’ dance floor grooves. They’ll be there along with Cape Cod WOMR DJ Matty Dread. Tunbridge Town Hall, 7-10 pm.
Goldpine at Artistree. The husband/wife duo of Benjamin and Kassie Wilson deliver harmony-driven Americana (they met in Nashville) that tells stories about real lives and real people with rhythm and power. 7 pm.
Hop Film screens Problemista. The first feature film by SNL’s Julio Torres follows Alejandro (Torres), an aspiring toy designer who, as The Atlantic puts it, believes "every toy truck should come with a tire that slowly deflates to illustrate the concept of running out of time." He's also an immigrant whose visa renewals are at the whim of the bureaucracy (both government and otherwise), and of Tilda Swinton, an art-world eccentric who offers him work. 7 pm in the Loew.
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