Community

CCTV Underwriters: Main Street Landing Supports CCTV 10/13/2023

Main Street Landing is an environmentally and socially conscious redevelopment company located in Burlington, Vermont. Their Performing Arts Center has a space that will work for almost any kind of event, meeting, film showing, fundraiser, private party, play, talent show, or performance.

The Old North End Ramble 2023 07/29/2023

The Ramble is a free, annual event, celebrating the creativity and community of Burlington’s Old North End, held on the last Saturday in July.

The Ramble is a grassroots arts festival celebrating the unequivocally creative culture of The Old North End community, where the most racially and economically diverse population of Vermont densely resides with the highest concentration of Burlington’s working artists.

On The Street: Work Life Balance 05/14/2023

Jailin Piantedosi and Travis Washington visit downtown Burlington on a warm spring day to find out how people balance work and life in the modern world.

Mercy Connections: Mercy Connections Promo 04/18/2023

Mercy Connections, a Chittenden County (Vermont) nonprofit, offers a safe and welcoming place where all are invited to learn, grow, and make positive changes. Mercy Connections’ classes and programs help people identify and achieve their own goals within community support.

The Vermont Community Leadership Training builds the skills, knowledge, and confidence that enables participants to become effective advocates/agents of positive change. Through their participation in the eleven-week program, individuals gain confidence and find their voice to engage in community issues affecting themselves and their families.

Mercy Connections: Group Visit and Program Reflections 04/18/2023

In this program, leadership training participants share their work.

VICII: Anti-Semitism at UVM? A Constitutional Analysis of Louis Brandeis Center Complaint Against the University of Vermont 10/25/2022

From VICII:

In October 2021, the Louis Brandeis Center at the University of Vermont made a complaint against the University alleging that the University was not protecting Jewish students against anti-Semitic discrimination, harassment, and assaults. After an investigation conducted by the University and President Suresh Garimella, the President defended the University against the allegations of anti-Semitism.

These allegations of anti-Semitism did not die. With the Complaint, demands have been made, among others, that “UVM must adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Anti-Semitism.” The Louis Brandeis Center also asked The University of Vermont to issue a statement denouncing anti-Semitism in all its forms and recognizing that Zionism is a key component of Jewish identity for many students at UVM.”

For more information: vicii.org

On the Waterfront: Interview with MC DeBelina from Vermont Dance Alliance 10/19/2022

Mariah Riggs interviews MC DeBelina, Director of the Vermont Dance Alliance.

VICII: The Southern Connector Environmental Injustice? 10/12/2022

From VICII:

Join VICII, the Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement, to discuss the status of the long-awaited project to build the Southern Connector Highway, with Community Leader Steve Goodkind. Steve is a member of the Pine Street Coalition currently involved in litigation about the design of the connector.

The controversial project in progress since the eighties will recommence soon with a new design that will make the Southern connector run along our Lake and end at the low-income and minority neighborhood of the King Street community.

Steve Goodkind is a Civil Engineer and a community activist. He was the Project Director of the Southern Connector under Mayors Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle. He served as the Director of Public Works with Mayors Brownell and Weinberger.

For more information: vicii.org

The Juxtaposition: Walk In Power 08/11/2022

From the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance:

A program about issues affecting Black Folks and Black Folks effecting change.

The struggles and advances of Black folks throughout our national history of slavery and its current legacy have infused in our DNA an indisputable resilience. Realizing the untapped power that exists in us is a life altering awakening. It is liberating, exhilarating and infectious. It is our challenge to walk in this power and cultivate it in others. We’re joined today by a community member who walks in power.

Guests: Rajnii Eddins, Spoken Word Poet/Emcee and Teaching Artist; Christine Hughes, Director of the Richard Kemp Center

Originally from Seattle Washington, Spoken Word Poet/Emcee and Teaching Artist Rajnii Eddins has been engaging diverse community audiences for over 27 years. He was the youngest member of the Afrikan American Writers Alliance at age 11 and has been actively sharing with youth and community in Vermont since 2010.

Christine co-founded Uncommon Alliance, the first grassroots, local effort to initiate race data collection with the local police department. She is the Principal of New SeasonsVT and the Director of CALEOVT. She served as the first Chair of the Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel. Christine also created a Workforce Development program at the Burlington CJC as a contractor for the state for 12 years. Most recently she served as Senior Employment Consultant for Hireability and VABIR over the past four years.

Mission Bazaar - The Old North End Ramble 2022 07/30/2022

The Ramble is a free, annual event, celebrating the creativity and community of Burlington’s Old North End, held on the last Saturday in July.

From Mission Bazaar:

Mission Bazaar hosts live musicians on Saturday, July 30 for the Old North End Ramble. We start with Tom Pearo, who will bestow blessings to help you start your afternoon. At 1:30pm, don’t be fooled by the name Happy Spangler, who will bring you on a roller coaster of emotions as you move your body. Then at 3pm Mickey Western will play his legendary tales of lives lost and found on the dusty trail. Finally, Caudia Maria will make her Burlington debut, 'tis a mystery that will be revealed. Everything subject to change!!! All this with food trucks, a shrimp boil, tarot readings, vendors, ping pong, and so much more.