Upcoming Readings, Performances and Residencies

• July 12: David talks about writing down family stories and illustrates his talk with examples from JUDEVINE, A SONG FOR MY FATHER and WHILE WE'VE STILL GOT FEET at the Wolcott Historical Society meeting, at 7:00 at the new Wolcott Town Offices in the big Conference room. Historical Society meeting begins at 5:30. This program is presented as part of Vermont Reads 2010, sponsored by the Vermont Council on the Humanities, Wolcott Historical Society, and Glee Merritt Kelley Community Library. For more information contact, Amy Noyes at: amy@kingdomsedge.com

• July 18: David reads his own poetry and the poetry of Hayden Carruth along with other northern Vermont poets, including Galway Kinnell, Jody Gladding, Burt Porter and Lindsay Knowlton, at the Samuel Read Hall House, Brownington, VT, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Admission by donation. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Peggy Gibson at: director@oldstonehousemuseum.org

• July 28: David reads at the Brookfield Town Hall, Brookfield, VT, 7:00 p.m. For directions and more information contact Erik Nielsen: nielsen@sover.net

• July 29: A Celebration of Expressive Arts in Montgomery Center, VT, a blend of music, poetry and art, 7:30 to 10: 30 p.m., Montgomery Center Grange, David Budbill, featured poet, for more information contact Bob Cummins at: greycomyn@aol.com

• August 20-September 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

• October 1-3: David Budbill participates in The 9th Annual Brattleboro Literary Festival, Readings and appearances TBA. For more information contact: Wyn Cooper at: wyncooper@gmail.com
  

• October 15&16: David Budbill's JUDEVINE presented by The Palace Players, The Palace Theater, Hamilton, NY. For more information call: 315-824-1420 or contact: Patricia von Mechow at: pvm@twcny.rr.com

• October 29: 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

• 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

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Past Events

2010

• 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

• April 12: Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror." David participates as one of 13 readers of statements by victims of the US War on Terror. 7:00 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. for more information go to: http://www.acluvt.org/blog/2010/03/19/reckoning-with-torture/

• 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

• February 5, 6, 7 and 11, 12, 13, 14: David Budbill's JUDEVINE: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS, presented by Actors Bridge Theatre, Nashville, TN. For more information contact: Vali Forrister at: vali@actorsbridge.org or call: 615-341-0300. 

2009

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• September 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 30: Garrison Keillor reads David's poem, "Ben" on National Public Radio's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC. You can listen at:  http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/07/3  Just click on LISTEN at the top of the page. 

• 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

• 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

• 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/

• 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

• 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/

• 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

• 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

• March 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/

• March 4: David visits and talks to the Roxbury Elementary School, all grades, about his books, Christmas Tree Farm, Snowshoe Trek to Otter River and Bones on Black Spruce Mountain. For more information contact Susan D'Amico: librarianrox@yahoo.com

• 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

• 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