| Barre | 10:30 a.m. | Story Hour — Tuesdays For young people ages 3 - 5. Location: Aldrich Library, Katherine Paterson Children's Room, 6 Washington Street. Karen Lane, 476-7550. | |
| Barre Town | 6:30 p.m. | Selectboard Meeting — Tuesdays | |
| 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. | ||
| Montpelier | 6:30 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. | |
| Montpelier | 8:30 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. | |
| Plainfield | 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Play Group — Tuesdays; not held when schools are closed. For children birth to five and their adults. Town residency is not required. Family Center of Washington County. thefamilycenter@fcwcvt.org, 828-8765, 828-8779. Location: Grace United Methodist Church, Main Street. 454-8343. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 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. | |