3/11/15: The 10th Annual Poetry Out Loud Semifinals were held at the Barre Opera House last Wednesday. More than 5,000 Vermont students from 43 high schools participated in this national competition (35 schools were represented at the semifinals) and 10 students moved on to the finals which will be held March 19th at Vermont PBS.

The event is organized by the Vermont Arts Council who are celebrating 50 years of public funding for the arts in 2015.

Music: Greg Davis, Curling Pond Woods, “Improved Dreaming“

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Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...