Upcoming Readings, Performances and Residencies
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March 6: David is a Judge for
the finals of the Poetry Out Loud competition,
Vermont College, College Hall, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. For more information
contact Morgan Irons: onstage@sover.net
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April
22 thru May 9: The Premiere Production of David's new
play, A SONG FOR
MY FATHER, at Lost Nation Theatre, Montpelier, VT. This first
production will be directed by Andrew Doe, featuring John Alexander,
Tara Lee Downs, Robert Nuner and Ruth Wallman. For curtain times, days
of the week and ticket information contact: http://www.lostnationtheater.org
or call: 802-229-0492.
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August 20-Septembr 5: Old
Castle Theatre Company in Bennington, VT, presents
the second production of David's new play, A SONG FOR MY FATHER. For
more information contact: Eric Peterson: oldcastletc@gmail.com
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October 22: at 2:00 p.m. David
performs poems from his forthcoming--in August
2011, from Copper Canyon Press--book, HAPPY LIFE, at an Elder Education
Enrichment Program, Faith
United Methodist Church in South Burlington (on Dorset Street just to
the south of the 189 overpass). For more information contact Carl
Smarling: smarling@sover.net
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- November: David's
new poem
"Ode to Wood" appears in the Winter issue of Vermont Life
Magazine.
For more information go to: http://www.vtlife.com/current_issue/contents.htm
Past
Events
2010
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2009
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December 5:
David is Master of Ceremonies for a special benefit Indian Dinner and
Sari Fashion Show for Child Haven International, at Hazen Union High
School Cafeteria in Hardwick, VT, at 6:00 p.m. Child Haven is a
Gandhian organisation based in Canada, which provides homes and
education for 1,200 formerly destitute children in India, Nepal, Tibet
and Bangladesh. For more information contact Robin Cappuccino at wmtnfarm@together.net or
533-2296. For information about Child Haven, go to www.Childhaven.ca
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Nov 13,14,
19--11 a.m. matinee, 20, 21,
22--2 p.m. matinee:
David Budbill's JUDEVINE: A PLAY
IN TWO ACTS, presented by Portland
Community College, Portland, Oregon, for more information contact,
Patrick Tangredi at: patrick.tangredi@pcc.edu
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November
7:
David is inducted
into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences at 5:00
p.m. as a Fellow at their annual meeting at the Riverview Café
in Brattleboro, VT. For more information contact: Connell Gallagher at:
cbgallag@uvm.edu
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October
23: David performs poems and plays his shakuhachi at a
benefit
performance for the Jeudevine Music School Scholarship Fund at the
Hardwick Townhouse at 7:00 p.m. Also featuring the Panashe
Steelband, Michael Arnowitt, Geza Carr, Geoff Bennington, Camomilla,
Les Bluettes Sauvages and The Jeudevine Music School Kid's Steelband.
For more information contact Emily Laxner at: emilylanxner@gmail.com
or call: 802-472-5913. For a
full-color poster click
here.
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21: Beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Christ Church in Montpelier, VT, David
plays his shakuhachi for the International Day of Peace Walk throughout
Montpelier. Everyone is welcome.
- August
10:
David's commentary, "Affordable Food for All," aired on
Vermont Public Radio on this day. To read it go to: http://www.vpr.net/episode/46665/
To listen click on the LISTEN icon at the top of the column
on the right.
- July
7: David
participates in
Forums on the Future: Writers Visions of 2059: and reads his short
essay "Vermont Apartheid: 2059" as part of the Vermont Lake Champlain
Quadricentennial, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. at Contois Auditorium,
Burlington City Hall, Burlington, VT. For more information contact Fran
Stoddard at: fstoddard@vpt.org
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July
1: David
introduces
Donald Hall at Hall's reading sponsored by the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
in the South Congregational Church, St Johnsbury, VT, at 7:00 p.m. for
more information contact Lisa Von Kann at: lvkann@stjathenaeum.org
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June
11: 7:45
p.m. David reads/performs THE
FIRE OF COMPASSION: The
Meaning of Jazz in Words and Music with The Judevine
Mountain Trio (William Parker, Hamid Drake, David Budbill) at the 14th
Annual Vision Festival in New York City at Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand
Street, at the Henry Street Settlement. The F train to Delancey, or
the J or M trains to Essex Street or the D or B trains to Grand Street.
For more information contact: http://www.visionfestival.org/
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May
31: David
joins Galway Kinnell, Leland
Kinsey, Burt Porter, Lindsay
Knowlton and others to read their favorite Frost poems. A
Robert Frost Poetry Reading will take place from 2:00 to 4:00
p.m. on the shore of Willoughby Lake in Orleans, VT, off of Rt. 5A just
below the Willoughvale Inn, where Robert Frost camped with his family
during the summer of 1909. Students from Lake Region Union High School
and North Country Union Junior High School will exhibit projects
inspired by their study of Robert Frost. The Willoughvale Inn will
provide refreshments. The event is sponsored by the Old Stone House
Museum. For
more information and directions contact: Peggy Day Gibson, Director of
the Old Stone House Museum at: director@oldstonehousemuseum.org
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May 8:
A reading of David's new play, A SONG FOR MY FATHER, presented by
Oldcastle Theatre Company, 7:00 p.m., at The Bennington Station
Restaurant. For more information about the play contact:
oldcastletc@gmail.com
For more
information about and directions to the restaurant go to: http://www.benningtonstation.com/
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April 17: David reads his poetry at
the Cobleigh Public Library, 14 Depot St., Lyndonville, VT, beginning
at 7:00
p.m.. Also on the program for the evening will be poet Leland Kinsey.
For more
information contact Cindy Karasinski, Library Director at (802)
626-5475 or email: cindyk@cobleighlibrary.org
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April
15: David David is in residence
with composer Erik Nielsen at Champlain Valley Union High School to
talk about
collaborating with Erik on their opera, A
FLEETING ANIMAL and about
other collaborations and performances with composers
and musicians.
For more information contact: Carl Recchia
at: carl@cvuhs.org
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29: David
plays his shakuhachi and reads
ancient Japanese poetry at Matsuri 2009, at St. Michael's College Ross
Sports Center, Winooski, VT, from 2:05 to 2:30, immediately following
Burlington Taiko Drummers. For more information go to: http://www.jasv.org/
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January
27: David
is awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by New England College
at 11:00 a.m. in the Field House at New England College in Henniker,
NH. For more information contact Kathleen Williams
at: kwilliams@nec.edu
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January
27: David gives
a reading from his new book of poems,
HAPPY LIFE, at the New England College Art Gallery at 4:00 p.m. For
more information contact Kathleen Williams at: kwilliams@nec.edu
David's calendar for previous years
For more information
contact: budbill at wildblue.net
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