Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2026-09-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-06-18 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-04-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
In a society increasingly divided and isolated, storytelling can bring us together. Story Jam is a bi-monthly story circle where community members can meet to get to know each other through personal stories. All members of the Upper Valley community are invited to join the circle and share an unrehearsed 5-minute true story from their own life. No competition, no judgment, no lecturing, no ranting… Just share a story about something that happened to you and listen to other people’s stories. Whether you are a new or seasoned storyteller; whether you are shy or extroverted – all are welcome! The moderators will keep track of time to make sure everyone has a chance to speak.
For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

Media Maker Monday
2026-09-14 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-08-10 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-13 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-06-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-05-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-04-13 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
JAM welcomes Media Maker Members and their guests to a work in progress show and tell and peer feedback session.
Have a screenplay or stage play, short film rough cut, documentary project, podcast in progress, animation story board, pitch deck, or just an idea you have been kicking around for a while? Want to get feedback from peers and meet collaborators and mentors? This group is for YOU! Share your project, network with other artists, and see what projects creative people in the Upper Valley are making!
All Media Maker Members may take turns sharing works in progress. Guests, collaborators, and supporters may attend to listen and give feedback. Click here to become a member!

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Lampshade Poets Open Mic
2026-09-10 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-06-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-05-14 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Open to all Lampshaders as well as any poet who is interested in reading an original piece or two. Poets have the opportunity to be videoed for JAM’s community access station and YouTube channel if they wish.

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Pride Prom 2026
2026-06-05 18:00 - 22:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
JAM’s Pride Prom returns for a 5th year in a row!
If this were an actual high school, you all probably should’ve graduated by now. Once again there will be live bands, dancing, photos, LGBTQIA+, and whatever else is supposed to be at a prom. Whether you were cheer captain or on the bleachers, come with friends, a date, or by yourself. $5-20 recommended donation cash or venmo at doors, all ages and identities welcome.
THEME: Classic 80’s Prom! We’re returning to our (crimped) roots so tease up that hair and break out those timeless powder blue tuxedos. We will elect gender neutral prom royalty for best lewks of the night and award prizes generously donated by our sponsors.
BANDS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
Please note that in order to create a welcoming and inclusive space for our under age and sober adult queer community members, this year’s Pride Prom is substance free and we ask that you do not smoke or consume alcohol inside of JAM. Reentry will be allowed and you can always visit WRJ’s totally tubular, local restaurants and bars for a bite to eat and a quick bevy (if you’re of age and that’s your thing) between sets!
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JAM 48 Hour Film Slam 2026 Screening & Awards
2026-05-15 19:00 - 2026-05-17 20:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
See films made in 48 Hours by local filmmakers! Prizes will be awarded.
Want to compete? Register HERE

JAM 48 Hour Film Slam 2026
2026-05-15 18:00 - 2026-05-17 18:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Alright ya’ hooligans, you know the sitch! Make a movie in 48 hours starting at 6:00 PM on May 15 with prompts that will be announced at kick off and finish it by 6:00 PM on May 17. Prizes will be awarded at our 7:00PM screening!
Register HERE

JAM Productions Progress Report
2026-05-06 18:30 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Come see what we’ve been up to!
Last May JAM launched JAM Productions, a division dedicated to higher production-value content creation at JAM including long-form documentary, series, animation, and scripted (fiction) filmmaking. We are excited to invite you back for a JAM Productions Progress Report to share clips from the projects our community helped make possible through generous donations. A conversation with the creators will follow!

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Open Mike Karaoke
2026-05-01 18:00 - 20:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
On First Friday, sing (or even play) along to your favorite tunes with JAM Operations Manager and actual father of three, Mike “Mike Daddy” Cannon. Free and open to all ages!

Light River Junction
2026-03-08 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-03-07 18:00 - 23:00 | Private: White River Junction Village, White River Junction
For the week of our festival after night falls, the walls and windows of White River Junction will be transformed into glowing canvases for film and video artists.

Community Sing with Jes Raymond
2026-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
A Common Chorus – spend an hour singing folk songs and original compositions for audience choir by Jes Raymond. All the parts are taught; All experience levels are welcome. Let’s make a big sound!

Jes Raymond is an award-winning songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Be a part of this community sing as she leads us in new arrangements of folk songs and debuts new original works for audience choir. All levels of singers are welcome. There will be some accessible harmony taught- all the parts will be available to read but will also be taught by ear- no need to know how to read music.

The Chronology of Water Post Show Decompression & Guided Discussion
2026-03-08 16:15 - 17:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Led by Bailey Ray, Director of Advocacy at WISE, decompress and engage in a guided discussion following the screening of The Chronology of Water.

Filmmaker Talkback with Night Fight Director Khary Jones
2026-03-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Night Fight director Khary Jones will discuss his filmmaking process and answer questions from the audience after the screening.

Sunday Southern Brunch
2026-03-08 10:00 - 11:15 | Private: The Filling Station, 70 Gates St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
It’s brunch-o-clock somewhere! Join us at the Filling Station for a Sunday Southern Brunch

Chronicle on Choice & Consequence
2026-03-08 09:00 - 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
A media arts exhibit in Junction Arts & Media by artist janet e. dandridge.
“In 2019, Yrneh Gabon, Artivist & actor, invited me to participate in a group show at the 2020 Dakar Biennale. Excited and eager to exhibit in my first international art fair, I began creating a new live performance work. Then the Covid 19 pandemic happened. In 2022, the biennale was re-opened and the group show was back on. However, in 2021, I became pregnant with my son. Once I became aware of the new dates for the biennale within months of its opening, I had to make a quick decision, “Do I withdraw completely, or do I create a new work in this short period of time?” I realized that I could make a work using a readily accessible medium to convey the love, the doubt, the strength, and the choices that must be made once someone becomes a parent. Chronicle on Choice and Consequence (CCC), an intimate video work, explores the labor of motherhood and of one’s career. CCC reflects on definitions of labor, and how pregnancy, delivery, and childrearing are undervalued. Chronicle on Choice and Consequence contributes to the discourse on improving laws, and societal and cultural perspectives for Labor Rights and Women’s Rights.”
janet e. dandridge. Mother, Interdisciplinary Artivist, Arts & Activism Educator and Consultant, Liberator, Listener, Empathy Sustainer.

Indie Sleaze Dance Party
2026-03-07 22:15 - 23:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Smudge out that eyeliner and claw those skinny jeans out of the bowels of your closet. We’re getting messy mid 2000’s style at our indie sleaze dance party at JAM. DJ geNdErENdeR will be spinning the dance-punk tunes of their childhood.

Dabke Community Dance with Raq-On Dance
2026-03-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Join Shadia and Amity from Raq-on Dance for a presentation on common social dances from Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine! Learn the steps to join any social Dabke line at weddings, celebrations, and restaurants. Participants will also hear and learn about the drums and rhythms used.

INSTRUCTORS:
Shadia Tohme became passionate for dance at a young age from social dancing at festivals in the Turkish and Lebanese communities in Boston area. In 1972 she became professionally involved as a soloist and troupe member. Most of her Middle Eastern dance training has been with Middle Eastern artists both in U.S. and in Lebanon. Toured U.S., Canada, South & Central America with percussionist & folk dancer husband Ibrahim Maalouf and top ME artists on the U.S. Arabic entertainment circuit for eight years. During these tours, she created numerous Oriental & folkloric choreographies in productions that are still currently performed by local artists. Shadia has been teaching classical/folkloric classes & workshops in Canada and the U.S. for over forty five years and still going strong! In 1985 she created Mirza Dance Ensemble and has performed with them throughout New England. Over one hundred members and five generations successfully entertained audiences in numerous cultural festivals, college programs and traditional wedding celebrations until 2015. She continues to inspire and support future generations of dancers through her teachings and costume designs.
Amity Alize has studied Middle Eastern and North African folkloric dances for two decades and continues to deepen her knowledge through annual travels to Egypt. She has shared the art of Raqs Sharqi with thousands in the North East. Founder of the multi-award winning Raq-On Dance studio, Amity encourages dancers to develop their own unique voice. She was invited to teach and perform at the Camp Negum Dance Festival in Cairo in 2015. She is the director of the annual Shimmyathon Festival and has hosted over a hundred events featuring national and international dancers. She can be seen performing at weddings, theatre shows, fundraisers, and venues featuring Middle Eastern bands. She offers workshops across the United States and abroad. raq-on.net

Puppet Making Workshop @ RePlay Arts
2026-03-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Private: rePlay Arts, 87 Maple St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Join us after Theater of the Absurd to get inspired and make puppets with reused art materials and items you can find in your own recycling bin. All ages!
INSTRUCTED BY Meg Richardson

Meg Richardson is a puppeteer, cartoonist, and writer. Originally from Iowa, she now lives in White River Junction, Vermont, where she is a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She has performed with and built puppets for Bread and Puppet Theater. Her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her first novel, titled Paradise Pawn, will be published this summer. She loves making art with people and she is so excited to make puppets at RePlay Arts!
Thanks to our Community Partner, RePlay Arts!

Theater of the Absurd Puppet Show & Circus
2026-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
“What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd.” – David Lynch
For fans young and old of The Muppet Show and PeeWee’s Playhouse, WRIF presents Theater of the Absurd – a live smorgasbord of circus, puppetry, and music!
Kids tickets(12 & under): $17, Adult tickets: $23. Included in all WRIF passes. GET TICKETS HERE.
HOSTED BY CONTENT CLOWN

Bex Love (they/them) is a heart centered trickster who makes musical puppetry spectacles under the name Content Clown. Their work celebrates the ancient connection between queerness and the natural world, and utilizes the absurd to push against societal boundaries, in order to discover a more liberated world. Bex is also a member of the Sable Ensemble, and the Community Engagement Organizer for The Sable Project, an off-grid artist residency and event space in Stockbridge, VT. Listen to their album “Gender, Feels” here.
FEATURING
“Pattie Peels Out” by Ria Blaas

“Pattie Peels Out” tells the story of Pattie the potato, who finds the courage to venture outside her potato box where she encounters perils unknown to potato-kind. Ria Blaas has been performing with her ensemble, Upper Loveland Puppets throughout New England at schools, fairs, resorts, daycares and senior centers for over 15 years, presenting their cast of characters to audiences young and old. Blaas is accompanied by puppeteers, Glennis Gold & Cody Williams. Check out Ria’s work here.
Sable Ensemble

The Sable Ensemble is a curated group of alumni from The Sable Project in Stockbridge, VT who come together to collaborate on live performances featuring dance, puppetry, and shenanigans. The group includes Otto Pierce (he/him), Sable’ Founder and Creative Director, Jessica Lee (she/her), Sable’s Director of Operations, and Bex Love, Sable’s Community Engagement Organizer.
Liam Gundlach

Liam grew up performing with Circus Smirkus, then went on to study at the Circus School of Quebec. As a circus artist, a street performer and a hospital clown, Liam finds beauty in what is simple and relatable, giving equal value to the big trick as to the small moment of wonder. Now based in Boston, you can find out what Liam is up to here.
Elliot McGary-Walters

Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Elliot discovered circus arts in 2019. While training on a variety of apparatus, he quickly fell in love with aerial rope. In 2023, he moved to Brattleboro, Vermont to attend NECCA ProTrack professional training program. Here he discovered and began training tightwire and bottle walking. He is training hard in year 3 of ProTrack, and is looking forward to graduating in 2026.
Oscar

Cal Wicker is 20 years old and is training at the New England center for Circus Arts, in their professional training program as a dance trapeze major and acrobatic theater minor. They started as a competitive gymnast but once they found Circus there was no going back. Tonight you’ll meet Oscar, Cals mime who they have been creating over the last two years of training.

Meet the Filmmakers Brunch
2026-03-07 10:00 - 11:15 | Private: Putnam’s Vineyard, 188 S Main St Suite 110, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Mix and mingle with the filmmakers showcasing their work at the festival this year. Bagels, coffee, tea, and insider industry info!
