Heads up on the Young Adult Voice Movement Conference, organized by young adults for young adults. The conference will be in Bolton Valley on Friday, May 7th, 2010. Workshops will include topics such as the destigmatization of mental health, suicide prevention, young adult leadership, young adult empowerment, diversity and CLC.  While the conference is mainly for young adults ages 16-22, they are also looking for adult volunteers to help out that day.  Check out the video to find out more!

You can register for the conference here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YAVM

Join us for Open Mic Night at The Bristol Hub. Live music, poetry, spoken word, comedy, story telling, rants, and everything in between! Equipment will be provided (or bring your own). Free and open to ALL AGES. Contact thehub@gmavt.net to reserve a time slot in advance. The first Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7:30pm.

“What is Random Acts of Kindness Week?” you may ask…  Basically, it’s a time to inspire people to practice kindness and “pass it on” to others.  Maybe you’ve seen the posters up around town.  In case you haven’t, here are our Kindness Challenges for the week:

Monday: Give a hug to a friend.
Tuesday: Smile at everyone you pass today.
Wednesday: Say thank you to someone who made a difference in your life.
Thursday: Give a compliment to a stranger.
Friday: Start a conversation with someone you’ve never talked to before.

If all of those seem too easy to you, you can find even more Kindness Challenges at The Bristol Hub, Holley Hall, and Mt. Abe.

We would love for you to share your stories about acts of kindness, poems, art, essays, kindness wishes, or proposed activities.  Drop them in one of the envelopes we have around town at the Lawrence Memorial Library, The Bristol Hub, Holley Hall, and Mt. Abe.  We’ll be putting some of the submissions up here on the website.  Get ‘em in soon – we’ll be collecting the envelopes tomorrow afternoon.

We look forward to hearing from you all!

This Thursday, The Bristol Hub is not just for teens!  Everyone is welcome to our Community Open House.  Come on in to meet the crew, find out more about what we do, and have some fun.  Learn more about the programs we offer and share your ideas with us.  We look forward to seeing you!

The Hub will be closed tomorrow and Friday, which gives you plenty of time to get some fresh stuff ready for the Open Mic Night next Thursday.  Check it out.

Bring your friends and make your voices heard!

Monday night the reason why we closed early is due to some very important people! They are the “MAN” as they always say! We thank them a lot for helping us keep The Hub open! Also Brynna and I presented how The Hub is going to look in the future if we have our ways! Yeah maybe we can’t have the fairies and the pizza in the garden but the skate park expansion! Then after wards Jim had a talk with them about our budget! Go SELECT BOARD!

Working hard to make the world a better place

Working hard!

Today we celebrated January birthdays here at The Hub!  Is your birthday not in January?  Don’t worry – the first Wednesday of each month will be our birthday party for that month.

Tomorrow, we’ll be starting Movie Nights every Thursday.  Free movie, popcorn, and Cubbers pizza.  It’ll get started at 5:30pm – be here for good eats and Terminator Salvation!  Feel free to make any suggestions of movies YOU want to see!

YAY!

We also received a $5,000 grant from Vermont Community Foundations fall community grant round!

The survey “What Vermont Teen Girls Say” was created by a panel of girls! The survey is for girls in grades 6-12!

It is sponsored by VT commission on women and Girl scouts at Green and White mountains.  Click here to take the survey between now and Valentine’s Day.

Ryan and Dawn at Vermont Coalition for Teen Centers meetings!

Go Dawn Go Ryan!

Upcoming Events in January

Every Monday starting at 5pm there is free music lessons! Guitar, bass, and drums and any other day by appointment!

Every Thursday there is going to be PIZZA and a MOVIE! (of course it is from Cubbers)

Tomorrow is the Monthly Birthday celebration! So if it is your birthday! Then Come on it!

The 18th is Martin Luther King day! A day of Service and (Milk) We are helping the community!

The 20th is Camcorder day!

The 28th is open mic night!

The last event of the month is a fun DANCE on the 29th!

So wake up and get to The Hub!

We got the skate ramps and equipment moved onto the asphalt for the winter.  Big thanks to everyone who helped out with that!

Another thanks goes out to Akeitha Champagne, who brought in these four books to add to the collection at The Hub.  It’ll be great to come in and get cozy with a book when even more snow comes.

Last but not least, if you weren’t at The Hub yesterday, you missed our HUGE bonfire!  The only thing that was missing was marshmallows to roast!

That’s all the updates for now.  Wishing everyone a safe and fun holiday.  We’ll see you next year!

(All photos in this post taken by Brynna.)

Come on in and make it just how you like it.  Plus, we got a second Xbox Live profile so two people can play together.  Good times!