BarnArts Center for the Arts

Mission

To engage and inspire the local community through a year-round program of community theater, musical performances, youth theater, school workshops, and community events supporting both the existing and developing talents of local adults and children as well as nationally and internationally recognized artists.

Vision

A community that views art as essential to social well-being, values the pursuit of creativity and shared learning and where a thriving arts culture and rural economy are mutually supportive.

Our annual programs include: 

• Four community theater productions, including our powerful Summer Youth Theater musical production.
• Arts-in-Schools programming including our new Global Music Residency, bringing artists from around the world to public schools across Central Vermont and even into New Hampshire.
• 20-weeks of BarnArts Feast & Field Music Series, an outdoor series highlighting local, regional, and international talent put on in partnership with local organic farms.
• Jazz & Funk Winter Music Carnival, an all-ages community celebration held each March and designed to include opportunities for youth musicians to play a real gig and share the stage with professionals.
• Holiday Cabaret & Winter Carols, which includes a free adult and youth choir program with professional choral direction.
• Race Around the Lake, 5k and 10k races raising money for youth programming, including Summer Youth Theater and the expansion of Arts-In-Schools programs.