Please join us Thursday, June 3, at 7p.m.
VTDigger is thrilled to partner with Back Pocket Media to bring Vermonters a captivating live storytelling event sponsored by Vermont Glove and featuring journalists and community members.
About the Event
Local Live(s) is a show that brings together journalists and locals for a night of entertainment and conversation by and for Vermonters. Think of it as a podcast, but live and all about the place we love.
Music by Cricket Blue
The event will kick off with a musical performance by Vermont’s own Cricket Blue, a fresh folk duo whose music has been described as ‘spellbinding storytelling’ with elements of traditional Appalachian folk and literary indie rock.
Four Storytellers
Two journalists share stories behind their reporting, inviting readers into a world they’ve only observed from the outside and two community members share true, unvarnished stories of their lives. The result is an entertaining, captivating event that fosters connection and new understandings.
Meet the Speakers
Ann Dávila Cardinal
A self-described tattooed-Gringa-Rican-punk, Ann Dávila Cardinal works at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of two teen horror books, Five Midnights and Category Five.
Clark Parmelee
Clark of Parmelee Farms in Randolph formerly owned a mobile poultry processing operation (an occupation which generated some interesting and yes, humorous, stories) and now works for the Agency of Agriculture.
Kevin O’Connor
Kevin O’Connor is a Brattleboro-based writer for VTDigger and former staffer for the Sunday Rutland Herald and Times Argus.
Katie Jickling
Katie Jickling covers health care for VTDigger. She previously reported on Burlington city politics for Seven Days. She has freelanced and interned for half a dozen news organizations, including Vermont Public Radio, the Valley News, Northern Woodlands, Eating Well magazine and the Herald of Randolph. She is a graduate of Hamilton College and grew up in Brookfield.
Virtual Platform
Brattleboro’s iconic Latchis Theater, the factory floor at Vermont Glove — This won’t be your average Zoom. The event will take place on ohyay, an engaging online event platform where audience members will be able to mingle with each other in small group settings before and after the main program.
Registration
To attend, please RSVP below or on eventbrite. Tickets are $5 per person, however additional donations are always welcome and help support our nonprofit news organization.
More About Local Live(s)
This event is part of a national series Back Pocket is co-producing with local and state news organizations across the country. Other newsrooms that have hosted Local Live(s) events include the Chicago Sun-Times, Long Beach Post and Mountain State Spotlight.
Journalists share stories behind their reporting, inviting readers into a world they’ve only observed from the outside and community members share true, unvarnished stories of their lives. The result is an entertaining, captivating event that fosters connection and new understandings.
The theme of VTDigger’s first Local Live(s) storytelling evening is ‘hiding in plain sight.’
If cost of admission is at all a barrier, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Libbie Pattison at libbie@vtdigger.org.
Local Live(s) is funded by the Brown Institute of Media Innovation. This event is sponsored by Vermont Glove, maker of high-quality goat skin gloves in Randolph, Vermont since 1920.
