Today's Schedule
2023-12-02 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | VT
On December weekends and daily December 16 through January 1, step into a Victorian Christmas past, and see the site transformed by beautiful lights and natural décor. Traditional nineteenth century decorations will adorn the 1890 Farm Manager’s House where you can take a self-guided tour.
Dip your own candle and enjoy the festive holiday tree and decorations that fill the Visitor Center and historic barn. Make a mini mince pie in the Learning Kitchen.
Toast s’mores at the outdoor fire pits and warm up with a steaming cup of hot cocoa or coffee, available for purchase. Light adventure can be found on a snowshoe, hike or cross-country ski around the snowy pastures, weather permitting.
On the farm, guests can meet our Jersey cows, draft horses, chickens, sheep, and goats in the barns.
On select days take an old-fashioned horse-drawn wagon or sleigh rides through the picturesque farmstead in winter, conditions permitting. Sleigh rides will be offered December 8, 10, 19, 21, 28, and 30. Rides are available on a first come-first serve basis and are $5 per person plus admission. Rides are approximately 10 minutes long.
Christmas shopping is a delight in the Museum Gift Shop where shoppers will find unique holiday gifts and Billings Farm cheese. (No admission required)
NOTE: Billings Farm & Museum is closed on December 24th & 25th.

Woodstock VT Film Series: Breaking the News
2023-12-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-03 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States
Breaking the News
2023. Directed by Heather Courtney, Princess Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez. 99 minutes. Not rated.
Q&A with Amanda Becker, Washington correspondent for The 19th,* following the Saturday and Sunday screenings.
Purchase tickets
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater.
Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
Frustrated by the dearth of women and people of color in the media, in 2020 a motivated group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists banded together to buck the status quo and launch The 19th* News. Based in Austin, Texas, the digital news start-up is named after the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, but with an asterisk to acknowledge the Black women and women of color who were omitted. The 19th*’s work is guided by the asterisk–asking who is overlooked in the story and how they can be included.
Breaking the News is an immersive, crowd-pleasing, candid portrait of a start-up experiencing growing pains, roadblocks, and ultimately success in changing the paradigm and business model for news.” ~ The Film Stage

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Today's Schedule
2023-12-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-16 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-17 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-18 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-19 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-20 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-21 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-22 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States

Closed
2023-12-04, 2023-12-05, 2023-12-06, 2023-12-07, 2023-12-11, 2023-12-12, 2023-12-13, 2023-12-15 and 2 more dates | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States

Wassail Weekend 2023
2023-12-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-10 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | VT
Enjoy 1890s holiday traditions! Learn about the history of Wassail and step back in time in our authentically decorated farmhouse parlor.
Dip your own candle and enjoy the festive holiday tree and decorations that fill the Visitor Center and historic barn.
Warm up by the outdoor fire with a cup of cocoa and s’mores, available for purchase. Light adventure can be found on a snowshoe, hike or cross-country ski around the pastures, weather permitting.
On the farm, guests can meet our Jersey cows, draft horses, chickens, sheep, and goats in the barns.
Horse-drawn Sleigh Rides will be offered on Friday, Dec. 8 and Sunday, Dec. 10 from 11:00AM to 2:00PM, conditions permitting. Rides are $5/person for ages 2 and up in addition to admission to Billings Farm & Museum. Rides are approximately 10 minutes. Tickets can be purchased at the Admissions Desk.
Enjoy a warm cup of Wassail punch, made from a mulled blend of citrus juice and spices, available for purchase in the Billings Farm Learning Kitchen- no admission required. Christmas shopping is a delight in the Museum Gift Shop where shoppers will find unique holiday gifts and Billings Farm cheese. (No admission required.)

Homeschool Club: Holiday Celebrations Then and Now
2023-12-14 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States
December 14, 2023
10:00AM-11:30AM
Ages 7-11
$20/student, $15/member student

Holiday Celebrations Then and Now

Visit our authentically decorated 1890 Farm Manager’s House and discover how families and communities celebrated holidays long ago. Students will discuss different holidays and traditions, past and present. They’ll also dip a candle to take home and discover its significance as a source of light for long winter nights and many holiday celebrations, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, and Kwanzaa.

Woodstock VT Film Series: Close to Vermeer
2023-12-16 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-12-17 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States
Close to Vermeer
2023. Directed by Suzanne Raes. 78 minutes. Not rated.
In Dutch, English, and German with subtitles.
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
Purchase Tickets
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, which was on view from February to June 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world — with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run — the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer retrospective was nothing short of an historic event.
Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new light on the elusive Dutch Master. This fascinating documentary reveals everything from the quiet diplomacy required to get the Vermeers to the Netherlands and the new technical knowledge gained by scanning the paintings layer by layer, to the shocking news that one work may not be by Vermeer after all.
In the process, we discover how Vermeer was able to depict reality so differently from his contemporaries. But above all, Close to Vermeer shows the infectious love Vermeer’s art inspires. As one curator lovingly puts it: “A good exhibition should change your view of the world. Vermeer can really do that.”

How many paintings did Vermeer actually paint? That’s the challenge facing Vermeer expert Gregor Weber and exhibition curator Peter Roelofs as they attempt to put together the definitive exhibition of his works… wander through the gallery as the team attempts to define what a Vermeer is.” ~ Austin Chronicle

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