The Arts Bus

10/04/2026

🍁✨🍂 The season has changed and so have the leaves on the trees! The Arts Bus challenged kids at Bethel, Strafford, Tunbridge, Chelsea, Stockbridge & Rochester OnePlanet Afterschool programs to spend an autumn afternoon identifying the species of trees around their schools, collecting beautiful fallen leaves and using them to craft "faux-m forests" with their friends!
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Turrell Fund Vermont Afterschool The Vermont Arts Council First Branch Unified District Vermont Crafts Council Vermont Children's Trust Foundation White River Valley School White River Valley Supervisory Union

10/03/2026

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Inspired by the ever-spectacular Tunbridge World's Fair, The Arts Bus brought fair scenes with wooden Ferris Wheels for the kids at all 8 locations of the OnePlanet Afterschool programs to customize with sparkling gems, metallic acrylic paint pens, pom poms and creative originality!
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Turrell Fund Vermont Afterschool The Vermont Arts Council Rochester Stockbridge Schools First Branch Unified District Vermont Crafts Council Vermont Children's Trust Foundation River Valley Supervisory Union Sharon Elementary School

10/02/2026

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The Arts Bus and the kids at One Planet Afterschool in Bethel and Strafford kicked off afterschool art with swirls of color! We brought one of our new favorites- HYDRO DIPPING! The kids learned about the science behind the technique and then put their new skills in motion, creating unique floating paint layers on the surface of the water+carrageenan mixture and then submerged paper, rocks, and tote bags. The reactions from kids and adults were the same -- squeals of joy and huge smiles all around!
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Turrell Fund Vermont Afterschool Vermont Crafts Council The Vermont Arts Council Vermont Children's Trust Foundation Town of Bethel, Vermont First Branch Unified District The Newton School White River Valley Supervisory Union

09/29/2026

🎻 🎶 From BROOKFIELD to CARNEGIE HALL‼️
Just a month ago, internationally-acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman performed a live concert over Sunset Lake in Vermont, presented by The Arts Bus in collaboration with Brookfield Community Partnership Old Town Hall. The 2-day event was absolutely magical! We captured images & video here:

https://youtu.be/udb188R0QTs?si=UD6Vy_Zp4P4JFMDi

After regaling the floating crowd with his original compositions and 6-string progressive playing to a moonrise, Tracy shared that his next performance will be at Carnegie Hall, for the 5th time on Tuesday, October 27, 2026! 😮
Info: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/10/27/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM

To all who supported, came, floated, listened & performed -- thank you so much for making a magical evening in Brookfield Village! Floats & Notes had ripple effects worth repeating.

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The Vermont Arts Council Strum Bowing Groove Academy The Vermont Community Foundation Brookfield Historical Society Randolph Vibe White River Valley Chamber of Commerce The White River Valley Herald

On August 29, 2026, electric violinist Tracy Silverman performed a ...

09/26/2026

The Wittles in "Wandolph"!🐕🐈‍⬛🐄👶📖
On the last day of The Arts Bus Wittle Book Tour with author David Alexander & family, we visited Town of Randolph VT with stops at Lil' Sunshine Childcare and Little Red Wagon Childcare. 😁 At Lil' Sunshine, there was a even REAL cow calf to lead us in a "moo along" before our sing along!

😊🙏Thank you to all who participated in a beautiful week of autumn in Vermont (and the tip of Quebec!) reading A Farm Day with puppets+balloons, sharing coloring books+crayons, singing+giggles! From hosts to author to families, you made this a wonderful wittle week.

The Wittle Book Tour is a pilot program from The Arts Bus to support emergent literacy with puppetry to the under 5 crowd, and seeing it in action has proven it is a concept worthy of repeating! Again, our GIANT thank you to The Turrell Fund S. Whitney Landon Award and Dollar General Literacy Foundation for supporting this program. 🫶

To purchase or learn more about The Wittles book series, visit www.thewittles.com
White River Valley Chamber of Commerce
Randolph Vibe

09/25/2026

Yesterday, The Arts Bus visited both Orange County Parent Child Center locations in Tunbridge and Randolph! Author David Alexander and son, Wylan, were a hit as a singing and reading duo, leading us through several stanzas of Wheels on the Bus and a very animated Farm Day story. The puppets, balloons and kids all made for a giant fan club!!

Next stops today at Lil Sunshine Childcare and Little Red Wagon Childcare in Randolph!

09/25/2026

The Wittle Book Tour at Cobleigh Public Library where every child became a puppet theatre performer! We read, cheered, danced, sang and colored away a gorgeous afternoon.

Thank you so much, Turrell Fund & Dollar General Literacy Foundation! These smiles made possible by your grants!

09/23/2026

The Wittle Book Tour has gone international! We crossed to Canada at the amazing Haskell Free Library and Opera House !! Next stop, Cobleigh Public Library today, 1:30pm!

09/22/2026

Thank you, Dollar General Literacy Foundation! Not only did you support The Wittle Book Tour, but also provided the perfect snack!

09/22/2026

The Wittle Book tour on The Arts Bus is in the Northeast Kingdom!! Happening now at Hithcock Memorial, next stop Goodrich Public Library!