Geek Things for August 11th, 2017

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Books

  • Catherynne M. Valente: The Refrigerator Monologues, 6 PM, The Yankee Bookshop, Woodstock.

Cosplay

  • Cosplay Craftganza Part II: Swords, Helmets & Hats, 3-5 pm, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester.

Gaming

  • Magic: the Gathering group, 3pm – 5pm, VT Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre.
  • Magic the Gathering for Teens/Tweens, 4pm – 6pm, Turner Toys & Hobbies Essex Outlets, Essex.
  • Friday Night Magic – Booster Draft, 6pm – 10pm, Turner Toys & Hobbies Essex Outlets, Essex.
  • Friday Night Magic: Standard, 6:15 pm – 10:00 pm, Black Moon Games, Lebanon NH.
  • Friday Night Magic: Standard, 6 PM, Black Moon Games, Rutland.
  • FNM- Modern-Pauper, 5 PM, Dark Mountain Games, Springfield.
  • FNM Magic Wacky Draft, 5:30 PM, The Frozen Ogre, Saint Albans.
  • Friday Night Magic – Standard, 6:30 PM, Triple Play Games, Claremont, NH
  • Youth Magic FNM, 4pm – 7pm, Tinker & Smithy Game Store, Middlebury.
  • FNM: MODERN, 6pm – 9pm, Tinker & Smithy Game Store, Middlebury.
  • DRAFT, 9pm, Tinker & Smithy Game Store, Middlebury.
  • MTG – Friday Night Magic (Standard), 7pm – 11pm, Quarterstaff Games, Burlington.
  • Pinball Co-op open for fun, 6:30pm – 10:00pm, Pinball Co-op, South Burlington.
  • Friday Night Magic — Varying Format, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, The Gamer’s Grotto, Bennington.
  • Friday Night Magic — Standard Constructed, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, The Gamer’s Grotto, Bennington.
  • VTCC & VGA Game Night, Vermont Gaming Academy, South Burlington. $30.
  • Live Action Role-Play, 3:30-5 pm, Brownell Library, Essex Junction.
  • Dungeons & Dragons, 6:30-8:30 pm, Brownell Library, Essex Junction.

Local

  • Ghost Walk: Darkness Falls, 8 pm. Arrive 10 minutes early. Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington. $20

Science

  • Looking Up Tonight (Planetarium Show), 11:00am – 11:30am, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury.
  • Looking Up Tonight (Planetarium Show), 12:00pm – 12:30pm, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury.
  • The Planets (Planetarium Show), 1pm – 2pm, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury.
  • “Mars, A Watery Past” (Planetarium Show), 2:30pm – 3:00pm, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury.
  • “Mars, A Watery Past” in the Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium, 3:30pm – 4:00pm, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury.
  • ‘Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D’, 10:30 am, 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 pm, Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.
  • ‘Meerkats 3D’, 11:30 am, 1:30 & 3:30 pm, Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.
  • ‘Flight of the Butterflies’, 11 am, 1 & 3 pm, Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.
  • ‘Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric Adventure’, 12, 2 & 4 pm, Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Theater

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 7:00pm – 9:30pm, Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro.
  • ‘The Little Mermaid Jr.’, 7:30-9:30 pm, The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret. $10.
  • ‘There Once Was…’, 7:30 pm, Spice Performing Arts Studio, Rochester. $10.