Adamant Community Club
This Sunday, February 15!
Barnard College Professor of Education Thea Abu El-Haj will be a guest speaker at the Adamant Community Club on Sunday, February 15, at 3:00 PM as part of the "Winter Sunday" series. Abu El-Haj's research explores questions about belonging, rights, citizenship, and education raised by globalization, transnational migration, and conflict. Funded by the Spencer Foundation, her current research entitled, "Disrupting Dispossession: Teaching Palestine in Exile, 1970-1990" is an oral history project with Palestinian teachers in Lebanon. Recently Abu El-Haj was one of four authors of a special issue of the Harvard Educational Review devoted to "education and Palestine"; the issue was canceled within days of publication. She will discuss that experience, plus what she terms "scholasticide" and the issue of Gaza on today's college campuses with Rick Winston.
Admission is free; the series will continue each Sunday through March 1. The series is supported by a generous grant from Vermont AARP. For more information, call 802-454-7103.
Upcoming Events (all at 3:00 PM):
February 22 - “Owls in Winter,” Ash Kerby-Miller, North Branch Nature Center
March 1 - “Spring is Coming!” Potluck brunch (11 AM)
The Adamant Community Club is located in the old town schoolhouse on Martin Road. It was an active school until 1962, when the town of Calais deeded it to a newly-formed local non-profit organization. In 2010, the Adamant Community Arts Center became the Club's offical 501(3) tax-exempt administrator.
Over the years many talented people have stepped in and added their particular expertise to keep it lively and in good condition.
It still has the slate blackboard, the portrait of George Washington, the huge windows for much needed light when electricity didn't exist in rural areas. Thanks to grants from the Division of Historic Preservation, the Vermont Arts Council Cultural Facilities program, and the Preservation Trust of Vermont, and donations from community members, the ACC is newly winterized, reroofed, and repainted.
It’s a wonderful performance venue — musicians who play here love the acoustics (and the fact that they are paid in money, not just sandwiches). Neighbors rent it for private parties or play readings, or retreats.
The Community Club has hosted community dinners, Co-op annual meetings, kids’ play groups, square dances, and has just generally been there as a space whenever someone needs a bigger living room.
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