CabotVT.org: Community Calendar for Monday, April 5, 2004


Barre10:30 a.m.Story Hour
— Mondays
For young people through age 2.
Location: Aldrich Library, Katherine Paterson Children's Room, 6 Washington Street. Karen Lane, 476-7550.
Cabot7:00 p.m.PTSO Meeting
— Usually 1st Mondays
Contact Rose Bothfeld, 563-2715.
Location: Cabot School, Library, 25 Common Road. Dawn Sicard, 563-2289.
Cabot7:00 p.m.School Board Meeting
— Mondays
All are welcome.
Location: Cabot School, Library, 25 Common Road. Dawn Sicard, 563-2289.
Hardwick7:00 -
9:00 p.m.
Workshop: Western-style Square Dance
— 1st - 4th Mondays, September - May
Buffalo Mountain Dancers. Levels: Mainstream/Plus. Caller: Wayne Richardson; Cuer: Doc & Peg Tirrell. Contact Wayne & Una Lou Richardson, 533-2944. Vermont Association of Western Style Square Dance Clubs.
Location: Hardwick Elementary School, Multi-purpose Room, 174 Main Street. 472-5411.
Marshfield10:00 a.m.Story Hour
— Mondays
Each of these fun, informal sessions feature stories, music and a chance for children and parents to browse, read or play. For children up to age five. All are welcome. Free.
Location: Jaquith Public Library, Old Schoolhouse Common. Susannah Blachly, 426-3581.
Today's Montpelier listings are sponsored by Lost Nation Theater. City Hall Arts Center, 39 Main Street. 229-0492. info@lostnationtheater.org. Theater with Heart in the Heart of Vermont.
Montpelier Book Sale
— March 22nd - April 10th
Thousands of books sorted by subject and at very reasonable prices.
Location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street. Ellen Miles, 223-3338.
Montpelier1:30 p.m.Film: The Barbarian Invasions
Baby-friendly matinee
— April 2nd - 8th
A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles.
Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509.
Montpelier6:30 p.m.Film: The Barbarian Invasions
— April 2nd - 8th
A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles.
Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509.
Montpelier8:30 p.m.Film: The Barbarian Invasions
— April 2nd - 8th
A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles.
Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509.
Morrisville7:00 p.m.Bingo
— Mondays
Location: Bishop John A. Marshall School, 680 Laporte Road. 888-4758.
St. Johnsbury7:00 p.m.Film: Girl with a Pearl Earring
— April 2nd - 8th
In a visually stunning adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, a resilient Dutch girl (Scarlet Johansson) becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and ultimately the subject of one of the artist's most famous works. Though from vastly different backgrounds, the artist and the maid strike a unique emotional chord in one another and develop a societally taboo relationship responsible for the passion behind the creation of one of his greatest paintings. Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy also star. It has just been nominated for Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Rated R, 99 minutes.
Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559.