Theater & Library Camp this August in Guilford Ctr.

 

For a second summer, Guilford Free Library and Guilford Center Stage are again collaborating on Stage & Stream, a weeklong theater and library camp this August 14-18.  The session will be open to 5th-8th graders, and will be FREE to Guilford kids.  Those from other towns may attend for a fee of $50 for the week.

The camp day will run Monday through Friday from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm at a pair of adjacent 1890’s venues in the village of Guilford Center.

Mornings will take place at Guilford Center Stage in the Broad Brook Grange, with theater workshops, games, improv, and sketches.  Each day begins with breakfast snacks and an intro to the day’s activities.

Campers and teachers then take the 2 minute walk to the Library for brown-bag lunch and an afternoon of literature, writing, journaling, and outdoor time in the woods, stream, the new play-space and Weeks Trail.  Healthy snacks will be provided throughout the session.

Returning from last year are theater teachers Rachel Durante of Guilford and Maia Gilmour of Brattleboro.  Rachel Durante is a theater graduate of Goucher College and has been featured in Vermont Theatre Co. productions this season.  Maia Gilmour studies Humanistic Psychology at Point Park University, and plans to further her education to go into the fields of Art Therapy and Art Education.

Library staff and parent volunteers will also be part of the team.  On one or more afternoons, guest practitioners will join the group for indoor and outdoor activities.

Guilford Center Stage was founded in 2015 by Broad Brook Grange.  The group has premiered plays by Guilford playwright Michael Nethercott and performed comedies by Vermont authors Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Charles W. Henry,   It is now preparing for its 5th production, the premiere of one-act plays by Jean Stewart McLean (1917-1963) in October.

The Town’s library is regularly open several days a week, and will be staffed on camp days. Guilford Free Library has a history of providing activities for the children of Guilford, including storytime and other workshops for older children and programs for adults.  For a number of summers it has provided two morning-session Library Camps — the summer reading program — free to Guilford children.  These camps, for younger children,  will continue this summer.

For the Stage & Stream camp, transportation will be arranged for any camper who requires this in order to attend.

For further information contact Cathi Wilken, Librarian of Guilford Free Library, 257-4603  wilken@sover.net.

Brunch at Grange Sunday 18th

Broad Brook Grange will present its 21st annual Father’s Day Brunch on Sunday, June 18, from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Grange hall in Guilford Center.  The proceeds from the event support maintenance of the historic building.

The all-you-can-eat brunch features eggs and omelettes, any style, made to order.  Also on the menu are  pancakes, French toast, sausage, bacon and home fries, with Guilford maple syrup.  Other treats include home-baked coffee cakes and other baked goods, fresh fruit salad, and bread for toasting.  A selection of juices will be available, along with coffee, teas and milk.

The Grange hall serves as a community center for Guilford, hosting meetings, General Election polling, The Guilford Food Pantry every Thursday, Green-Up Day, and the theater project, Guilford Center Stage.  The organization also provides an annual scholarship to a college-bound Guilford student — to be given at BUHS Senior Awards Night this week — and a dictionary to every 3rd grader at Guilford Central School.

No reservations are necessary for the meal, which is priced at $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, and $5 for ages 2-12. Kids under two are free.

This event is the last of two brunches for 2017, and concludes the series of annual fundraising meals which began with the sugar on snow supper in March, and Mother’s Day Brunch in May.

Broad Brook Grange is at 3940 Guilford Center Road, 4 miles west of the Guilford Country Store.  For more information, call (802) 257-1961.

Father’s Day Brunch at Grange — Help Welcome!

Broad Brook Grange’s spring season of a cluster of food events (Sugar on Snow Supper in March, Mother’s Day Brunch in May and now this event) concludes for 2017 with our 21st annual Father’s Day Brunch on Sunday, June 18, 7am – 1 pm, an all-you-can eat affair, with famous made-to-order omelettes and much more.  This is an event which helps keep the building going — heat & electricity, paper towels, insurance, maintenance & repairs, etc.

We’ll shortly send out a reminder of the event itself to encourage folks to attend as customers.

The Grange members also ask people and organizations which use the building or have an interest in preserving it to suggest that we could use some help putting on the brunch.  We welcome donations of baked goods, and other food supplies, and especially can use additional staff.  There are a couple of work shifts on the day before, but particularly at the event itself.  Some workers arrive as early as 5 am, and clean-up afterwards usually goes too 3:30 or 4 pm.  But we are happy to have people take — or create — a shift anywhere during that time period.

Perks: (tho modest) include free breakfast — you can even order eggs or an omelette and take a break at any time to have a lavish brunch.  Also, if you’re there at the end of the event, there’s always cool food stuff you’re free to take home.  BUHS students may also get Community Service hour credits.  And it’s a friendly event & fun to work on.

Here is a link to the sign-up BringIt list.  Thanks, Don

http://organizethis.bringit.bz/public/39f3f0