Meet Me In the Courtyard

Every Friday for the month of August (weather permitting), Bennington Museum invites you to join us in the courtyard for a bite to eat and some informal entertainment by local creatives.

FOOD
From 5pm to 8pm the Avocado Pit will set up shop in front of the Museum’s gates, serving delicious tacos, beer and wine. Food may be eaten anywhere on the grounds, and alcohol may be consumed within the gates and other designated areas. 

Any visitor who purchases food from the Avocado Pit or who presents a receipt from any other Bennington restaurant may enter the Museum for 50% off the price of admission.  The Museum is open until 8pm on Fridays.

EVENTS
From approximately 5:30pm to 7pm Bennington Museum will host performers in the courtyard, free of charge. The public is encouraged to bring their own blankets or lawn chairs and to arrive early as the courtyard capacity will be limited to 25 total.

The line-up:

August 14:

Judith Schwartz book release and reading at 5:30, (followed by music with Joe Tucker at 6pm)
Judith D. Schwartz is a local author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. She takes a clear-eyed look at global environmental, economic, and social challenges, and finds insights and solutions in natural systems. She writes for numerous publications, including The American Prospect, The Guardian, Discover, Scientific American, and YaleE360. Her latest book, “The Reindeer Chronicles”, begins right here on Mount Anthony and launches into a global tour of earth repair, where people are working with nature to heal degraded landscapes. The book invites us to ask: let’s say it is possible to restore the earth. What would that look like? What ecological forces would we seek to activate, and what knowledge and creativity would be unleashed? With its focus on solutions, Judy’s work is an antidote to the typically gloomy environmental news beat.  Books will be for sale on this night through the Museum shop (with a chance for an author autograph!), and will be for sale thereafter at The Bennington Bookshop, Battenkill Books and the Northshire Bookstore.

Joe Tucker started his musical career at a choir school for boys in Cambridge, Mass. In subsequent years, he taught himself guitar and bass, leading to a long and varied career in the Boston area and for the last 15 years in Bennington, Saratoga Springs, Glens Falls and Lake George. Today, Joe will be singing and playing acoustic guitar in a wide range of musical styles from folk to Irish to the acoustic side of pop and rock.

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COVID Policies

MASKS: All visitors ages 2 and older must wear face coverings when inside the Museum. Jane Stickle Quilt masks will be for sale in the gift shop if you forget to bring your own.

TEMPERATURE: When entering the Museum all visitors will have their temperature checked and those with a temperature of over 100 will be asked to return another day.

HAND SANITIZER: Hand sanitizing stations are being made available throughout the Museum as well as in front of the entrance doorway.

DISTANCING: Guests in unrelated parties must maintain 6 feet of distance between each other both inside and outside the Museum.

A complete list of Museum COVID policies, Museum Admission, and Hours can be found on the VISIT page.