This workshop conducted by Tom Nielsen, will be 2-3 hours per session for 6 weeks. The first half is devoted to relaxation and sensory awareness exercises for the body and mind. These are useful tools when preparing for a role or performing on stage or film. The second half of the workshop is devoted to scene study - breaking down a script, justifying behavior, creating a character, psycho/physical behavior, listening and improvisation.

Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts (VTica) has planned an exciting two-fold exhibit this holiday season entitled, Something to Celebrate. VTica has collaborated with The Vermont Watercolor Society (VWS) and seventeen of its members experimenting in abstract work. The VWS members were asked to depart from their figurative, literal style and submit work that is reflective.

On November 12, the Chester Conservation Committee will sponsor Preparing for the Emerald Ash Borer: Mitigating the Impacts of the "Green Menace," presented by Jim Esden, Forester, Vermont Dept. of Forest, Parks and Recreation.

Secretary of State Jim Condos and State Archivist Tanya Marshall are pleased to welcome Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel to Drinker Biddle and former Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as their guest speaker for Vermont Archives Month.

A workshop to prepare boxes for Operation Christmas Child, an outreach ministry of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Chester, will be held in Willard Hall on Friday, October 18 from 2 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served, so come for an hour or longer to cut, paste, color and decorate.

SoVerA, The Southern Vermont Astronomy Group, Inc. (www.sovera.org), a professional-amateur, not-for-profit astronomy research and outreach organization based in Chester, Vermont, is debuting its fall season astronomy courses for 2013. Magic Mountain, Inc., the ski resort property at Glebe Mountain in Londonderry, will be the venue for the courses.

October 8, 2013 7:00 PM at the Whiting Library in Chester, VT - Dartmouth Researcher and long-time SoVerA Member, David McGaw, will be speaking about ground and rocket auroral research in Greenland in the fall, Alaska in the winter and especially Antarctica in their summer time.

The Chester Conservation Committee will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7:00 pm in the Chester-Andover Elementary School. Topics for discussion include planning for the first of several informational programs, a report on the trail scouting session that will take place this Saturday, the Green Mt. Conservation Camp scholarship, and other items.

Secretary of State Jim Condos has declared October as Vermont Archives Month. In celebration, the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA), a division of the Secretary of State's Office, is hosting a series of programs.