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2024-01-23, 2024-01-24, 2024-01-25, 2024-01-26, 2024-01-29, 2024-01-30, 2024-01-31, 2024-02-01 and 10 more dates | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States

Today's Schedule
2024-01-27 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-04 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-10 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-11 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

Woodstock VT Film Series: All That Breathes
2024-01-27 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-28 15:00 - 16:30
All that Breathes
2022. Directed by Shaunak Sen. 97 minutes. Not rated.
Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film
In Hindi with subtitles
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
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In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird — the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

Simple in its slow, calm storytelling, but profound in the philosophical points it raised about how we are all connected in the vast ecosystem.” ~ Times of London

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Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film

RESCHEDULED: Basics of Home Butchering
2024-02-03 10:00 - 11:30
NOTE: Due to illness, this workshop will be rescheduled to March 2.
Price: $15/person, $10/Billings Farm member
Presenter: Josh Coyle
For Ages: 16+
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Ready to up your game in the kitchen? In the next Billings Backyard Workshop, the Village Butcher’s Josh Coyle will bring decades of expertise to the table and share insights into the art of home butchering and sausage making. This workshop will feature hands-on demonstrations, allowing participants to explore the fundamentals of creating delicious sausages at home as well as sourcing top-quality meats and maintaining sharp and ready equipment and knives. From quartering a chicken to spatchcocking, participants will discover techniques for poultry and carving cuts like rib roast, beef tenderloin, briskets, and turkey.
The session will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
Cancellation Policy: There are often waitlists for our courses, so please let us know in advance if you are unable to attend. Refunds are available up to 7 days before the class is held. There are no refunds within 7 days.
Contact info@billingsfarm.org with questions.

Woodstock VT Film Series: Joonam
2024-02-03 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-04 15:00 - 16:30
Joonam
2023. Directed by Sierra Urich. 100 minutes. Not rated.
Q&A with filmmaker Sierra Urich following the Saturday screening
In English and Farsi with subtitles
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
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Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far removed from Iran, the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat. Only knowing Iran through family stories, food, and holidays, and with the prospect of travel to the country a seemingly impossible dream, she embarks on a personal quest to make sense of her fractured Iranian identity. Navigating barriers of language and culture (not to mention the complications of geopolitical conflict and displacement), Sierra turns to Mitra and Behjat to construct a deeply moving and sometimes disarmingly funny portrait of three generations of women and their complex relationship to an Iran of the past.
Named for a Farsi term of endearment, Joonam is infused with humor and heart like only a film about family could be. Interrogating family history and memory, including her grandmother’s experiences as a preteen bride and her mother’s rebellious teenage years during the Iranian Revolution, Sierra Urich constructs a rich, personal film that poignantly reflects the experiences of the Iranian diasporic community and speaks to anyone affected by the dislocation that accompanies immigration.

A heartfelt exploration of those living within a diaspora, the fractured connection each generation has to their own culture, and the irrevocable bond of shared roots.” ~ RogerEbert.com

Homeschool Club: Marvelous Maple
2024-02-15 10:00 - 11:30
February 15, 2024
10:00AM-11:30AM
Ages 7-11
$20/student, $15/member student

Marvelous Maple

Dive into the marvelous world of maple! As we journey through the beautiful forest, we will learn from a National Park Ranger how to identify maple trees. We will look at historical tools for sugaring and have the chance to taste a delicious treat of Sugar on Snow.
