Please follow signs for adjustments to parking and building access. The balcony will remain closed to the public throughout the 2024 season.

Tickets: $15. Purchase advance tickets in person at The Civic Standard (starting 4/22) or online at thecivicstandard.org (starting 4/26)

Presented by The Civic Theater Project

“Change Your Life” was a homespun game show played by locals beginning back in 1846 and lasting until 1979. But, like many town traditions, it abruptly ended, leaving a hole in the heart of Hardwick. 

The Civic Theater Project, creators of “The Garage of Doom” and “Developed to Death”, are dusting off the sequins, updating the games, and bringing this interactive spectacle back to life! The evening features a local cast of Hardwick’s finest plus a live band, sweet and savory refreshments, real prizes and big winners.

Monday, May 13
7:00 PM

Free Event

Thomas C. Hubka , author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, will speak at the Annual Meeting of the Hardwick Historical Society.

Hubka is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Through forty years of teaching, he has attempted to link our understanding of architecture to its historical and cultural contexts.

Big House, Little House… received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. It has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and cultural studies. This engaging talk will highlight the four essential components of the stately and beautiful nineteenth-century connected farm buildings that serve as a living expression of a rural culture and that offer insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life.

The author will have books for signing and purchase at $30 each.

The HHS will host a reception at the Depot at the end of the program.

Presented by Galaxy Bookshop

Come one, come all to the Hardwick Town House for an evening with the legendary Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus. Rob is publishing a memoir of his life as a circus performer – Circle of Sawdust, which details the precarious life of a creative artist, the ups and downs of taking risks, and the idealistic struggle to hold onto a dream. 

Vermont Community Development Association

Tickets: Adult $25, Student $10, Child (12 and under) free

Founded in 1966, the CCP is a group of world-class musicians who perform both masterworks and lesser known chamber music gems every summer. Concerts feature ever-changing ensemble configurations. The programs offer an engaging musical journey, balancing tradition and innovation with scale and scope. The music ranges from the classical, romantic, 20^th century and contemporary periods. Jim Lowe, music critic for the Times Argus wrote, “The Craftsbury Chamber Players are responsible for some of the best and most interesting chamber music in Vermont.”

Presented by The Civic Standard

The Town House is the rain location for this event.

Free Admission

Annie Houston & Hardwick Town House Present

Back by popular demand, Black Fly Story Hour is an open-mic storytelling event where storytellers have five minutes to tell a tale on a theme and storylisteners get a whole evening of listening in.

How it works: Storytellers craft a five-minute story based on the night’s specific theme, and sign up when they arrive at the event. 12 names will be drawn at random, and those 12 individuals will share their tales with the audience. Stories can be real or made up – it’s entirely up to the teller.

Tickets are $35. Pay cash at the door.
Reserve your spot by emailing Monica at monicalmorrissey@gmail.com

Rebecca Ann Locicero, a psychic medium, is coming back to Hardwick, VERMONT!

Rebecca is featured in the Netflix Series Surviving Death and is a Certified Medium through the Forever Family Foundation. “Messages from Heaven” is her trademark presentation involving direct, divine and accurate “readings” for the people from their loved ones who have died. Rebecca Anne has an exclusive and unique way to present validating messages. She is bold, brassy, honest, loud, outgoing, accurate, hysterically funny and full of joy!