Burlington City Arts

Burlington Church Street Tree Lighting 2024 11/29/2024

From the Church Street Marketplace:

Kick off the holiday season at the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Church Street Marketplace! Enjoy live performances starting at 5:15pm followed by the grand lighting at 6pm. Don’t miss this festive tradition!

For more information visit: www.churchstmarketplace.com

Burlington Festival of Fools and Voter Registration 08/03/2024

Charlie Giannoni, Town Meeting TV field producer, interviews some of the organizers from Burlington's Festival of Fools. Also, a vendor is encouraging people to vote and informing voters about voter registration.

From Burlington City Arts:

BTV’s annual gala of goofs, rite of ridiculousness, and preposterous pageant of merrymaking returns August 2-4, 2024!

The Festival of Fools brings over 100 free performances to Burlington, Vermont’s historic Church Street, with street performance, busking, music, and more!

For more information visit: www.vermontfestivaloffools.com

Artful Word: Essential Figure 07/19/2024

Essential Figure art show at Burlington City Arts (BCA).

From BCA:

Essential Figure is an exhibition exploring and expanding the tradition of painting the human form, featuring Sophie Cangelosi, Jennifer McCandless, Hannah Morris, Enrico Riley, Suzy Spence, and Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck.

BCA: Migration and Contemporary Cultures in Vermont 03/07/2024

From Burlington City Arts (BCA):

Pablo Bose, a UVM researcher working with immigrant-serving organizations, moderates a lively conversation in conjunction with BCA’s exhibition Here Now: Art and Migration. Panelists include Negina Azimi and Abdullah Hafizi of the global arts collective ArtLords (originally based in Afghanistan) and exhibiting artist Paula Higa (Brazil/US). Migration and Contemporary Cultures in Vermont is Co-sponsored by UVM Global and Regional Studies.

Here Now: Art and Migration brings together a group of international and national artists whose work explores concepts of borders, movement, and migration across local urban centers and global geographies. Through their choice of materials and visual languages, these artists challenge conventional notions of borders as fixed. They reimagine borders as sites of historical investigations, social reckoning, and conduits of an emerging aesthetic. Here Now: Art and Migration features artists who, through their creative practice, define their place in the here and now.

For more information visit: https://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/

Burlington City Arts Releases Findings of Economic and Social Impact Study of Greater Burlington Area’s Arts and Culture Industry 01/17/2024

From Burlington City Arts (BCA):

Burlington City Arts unveils the local results of Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), a comprehensive economic and social impact study of the Great Burlington Area's nonprofit arts and culture industry. The study, conducted by Americans for the Arts in partnership with Burlington City Arts, demonstrates locally as well as nationally that arts and culture are a critical economic driver of vibrant communities.

Results of the study include total spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations as well as event-related spending by their audiences–and the impact of that economic activity on jobs and tax revenue generated to the Greater Burlington Area, Vermont, and the federal government.

The AEP studies series is the nation’s largest and most inclusive study documenting the economic contributions of the arts and culture industry, demonstrating locally as well as nationally, nonprofit arts and culture are a critical economic driver of vibrant communities. Learn more at https://aep6.americansforthearts.org/

For more information visit: https://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/

Artful Word: Church Street Tree Lighting 11/24/2023

From Media Factory:

Tree Lighting

Burlington Church Street Santa Parade 2023 11/24/2023

From Church Street Marketplace:

Immerse yourself in the holiday spirit by joining us for the much-anticipated annual Santa Parade! Feel the excitement build as the parade takes off from City Hall, led by local favorites Rally, Champ, Special Olympics Penguin and athletes, Miss Vermont America, and Santa Claus! Revel in the magic as we move up Church Street.

For more information visit: https://www.churchstmarketplace.com/

BTV Winter Market and Vendors 11/24/2023

From Burlington City Arts:

BCA and Love Burlington join forces for their second year to present this beloved European-style outdoor market in City Hall Park on Fridays-Sundays, November 18 - December 23.

The BTV Winter Market brings together a mix of experienced makers and emerging creative small business owners with a rotating lineup of 20 local artists, makers, retailers, and food vendors. Heated sheds for vendors complete with lighting, seasonal decor, cozy firepits, heaters, and music create a vibrant joyful space for our community to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. 

For more information visit: https://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/event/btv-winter-market-0

Burlington Church Street Tree Lighting 2023 11/24/2023

From Church Street Marketplace:

Join us for the culminating event with the spectacular tree lighting ceremony at the top of the Marketplace at 6 pm, where 100,000 lights bring the 30+ foot tree to life.

For more information visit: https://www.churchstmarketplace.com/