Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts October Schedule of Events

The Uncommon Thread
Through October 21st
The inaugural fiber show of contemporary quilts and fiber wall art by eight of this region's most talented fiber artists. On exhibit through October 21st.

Projections: Reel to Real Conversation
October 20th 7pm
Mary & Max, a clay animation film, will be viewed, followed by a stimulating discussion. Mary Dinkle, a chubby 8-year-old Australian girl, and Max Horowitz, an obese, middle-aged Jewish New Yorker with Asperger's Syndrome, are a pair of unlikely pen pals in this quirky clay animation feature from Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet director Adam Elliot. Corresponding for two decades, the friends delve into a variety of topics, including sex, kleptomania, psychiatry, taxidermy, and more. Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman provide the voices of Mary and Max.
$10 donation suggested

Writing Workshop with Elayne Clift, M.A.
October 20th 10-1pm
From Harriet Tubman to Harry Potter: Exploring Our Archetypal Journeys. What do King Arthur, Luke Skywalker, Harriet Tubman and Harry Potter have in common? They all have a great story to tell. But it's more than an exciting narrative: each of them has been on an archetypal journey. This workshop will help us explore our own archetypal journeys as we reach for the "Golden Fleece" in our lives. Minimum enrollment: 6.

Instructor Elayne Clift, M.A. is a Vermont Humanities Council Scholar, an award-winning writer, and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications internationally. A regular columnist for the Keene Sentinel and a book reviewer for The New York Journal of Books, she has just published her first novel, Hester's Daughters, based on Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. For more information, please visit www.elayneclift.com.
Tuition: $35

Please note that VTica will briefly close starting October 22nd. We happily return for the opening of our new exhibit "Expressions" on November 30th.

VTica
15 Depot Street, Chester, VT
802-875-1018
VTica.org