The 7 Best Vermont Events This Week: January 22-29, 2025 | Seven Days

Riveting and Ribbiting

Saturday 25

Nature devotees of all ages get their creepy-cool critter fix with Stark Mountain Foundation’s Turtles to Toads event at Mad River Glen in Waitsfield. Knowledgeable staff from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum lead the engrossing educational program, packed with touchable artifacts and toad-ally unique reptiles and amphibians — up close and in the scaly flesh.

Dynamic Doves

Saturday 25

Capital City Concerts continues its lauded 25th season with vocal ensemble Culomba at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier. The group, whose name is Corsican for “dove,” performs a vibrant program titled “Color and Joy for a Winter Afternoon,” featuring a diverse repertoire that spans from Balkan traditions to original compositions — the perfect remedy for those postholiday blues.

Viral Vermonter

Saturday 25

Retired teacher Jen Ellis signs copies of her recent memoir, Bernie’s Mitten Maker — chronicling her experience with overnight fame — at Vermont Teddy Bear in Shelburne. Ellis rocketed into the cultural zeitgeist in 2021 when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders famously donned her cozy creations on Inauguration Day. You can be like Bernie and purchase a pair of meme-worthy mitts for yourself!

Don’t Dream It, Be It

Saturday 25

Creature Feature Club — an intrepid troupe of performers based in White River Junction — reprises its shadow cast roles for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at New Hampshire’s Lebanon Opera House. Iconic cult characters Brad, Janet and Dr. Frank-N-Furter come to life — on the big screen and onstage — for double the bawdy, gender-blending bliss.

Playing With Fire

Saturday 25

Snowlights: Shadow Play at Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro immerses guests in larger-than-life light displays. The illuminated indoor-outdoor event includes an interactive black light “ocean,” professional fire juggling, live music, and warm drinks and treats. Grab the kiddos and shake off January’s humdrum vibe where art, ingenuity and snow collide.

All Falls Down

Opens Wednesday 29

Vermont Stage raises the curtain on The Play That Goes Wrong at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. Set in the 1920s, this Olivier Award-winning murder mystery seamlessly blends the satire of Monty Python with the wit of Sherlock Holmes, offering audience members a clever, cunning, laugh-out-loud whodunit theater experience.

Old Haunts

Ongoing

Susan Mikula‘s “Island” exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center showcases haunting, atmospheric photographs created through the artist’s use of expired instant film and old Polaroid cameras. These dreamy, surrealist vistas highlight an unforgiving 30-acre shelf of bedrock in Bellows Falls — known as “the Island” — where human activity has long defined the landscape.