Calendar of events, monthly Potlucks, and more…
All events at the Rice's Mills Community Center unless otherwise noted
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Sweaty Betty
A weekly meetup for low key weights workout.
Be ready for low impact weight lifting, squats, abs, silly cardio and generally sweating. Together, we'll hold ourselves accountable to stay healthy, get stronger and have a good time! Beginners encouraged. BYO weights (any size or none at all), a towel and a yoga mat. Soup cans, half gallon milk jugs filled with water and other makeshift weights are welcome. If you have extra weights to share or gift, bringthose too! Come dressed to sweat and move. Class fee is $5/class and is 1 hour long.
Craft Day/Dye Pot Party
Crafty Afternoon and Community Dye Pot, June 14th 1-4 pm: Join us for a fun Saturday afternoon of crafting & making art together! Finish that work-in-progress or start a new project alongside your neighbors: knitting, drawing, mending, collage, anything your heart desires. We'll have some natural dye pots on hand, so feel free to bring small cotton, linen, or wool items to dip into the vats while we craft. This is a great way to extend the life of old clothing, napkins, dishtowels, etc. Free, all ages, all welcome. Snacks or drinks to share are welcome! Email katie or steen
Mend and Befriend
Mend and Befriend - You've been meaning to fix those pants and haven't yet. But maybe, just maybe, if you stop by Mend and Befriend, you will.
BYO project, beverage, snacks to share if you like. Crafts of all shapes and abilities are welcome. People who don't want to craft but want to sit with other people crafting, welcome. We may be able to have an extra sewing machine available and folks who can show you how to use it if you don't know. Don't know how to fix it? Don't know what to make next? Come!
Clothing Swap!
Clothing Swap! Sunday, May 25, 1-4 pm
Need inspiration to get to that Spring closet clean-out? or perhaps you've already done it, but just haven't gotten down to Listen to drop off your bags yet?
Then perhaps you'd like to join us for a clothing swap! Bring what you want to part with, and take what you like! Bring friends! Make friends! The more the merrier!
At the end, we can coordinate to donate the clothes that are left (if you'd like to help out with this, please email Jenny.
No need to rsvp. Hope to see you there!
May Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
May 2025 Potluck and Annual Meeting
May 2025 Potluck: 5pm games, 6pm potluck, 7pm activities
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! May 9, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
April Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! April 11, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
The Last Ice Film with Q&A to follow.
What and where was Glacial Lake Hitchcock? What evidence is left in our region’s valleys, rocks, soil and waterways? On April 3rd, Rices Mills Community Center brings filmmaker Greg Stott to Thetford to show his new documentary about the effects of the last ice age in the Connecticut River Valley. Greg is a middle school science teacher who made the film after winning a Christa McCauliffe Sabbatical supported by the NH Charitable Foundation in 2023.
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
March Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! March 14, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
Gardening Workshop
The Gardening Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature.
Feb Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! February 14, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
Jan Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! January 10, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
Meditation Group
Meditation Group - Join us 6:00 - 7:30 for a time of mindfulness practice and meditation. The general rhythm of our group consists of coming together to practice sitting/walking meditation, reading from a dharma book, discussing, sometimes practicing different relational activities and ending with a Metta circle — a time to call in people/situations that could use some extra care, love and attention. . My dear friend Ginger Wallis will also be helping to facilitate. Everyone is welcome regardless of meditation experience! Form more information contact Steen Croitoru (They/them) or Ginger
Dec Dead Jam
Please join us for a Grateful Dead acoustic jam, circle song-swap style Bring an instrument for an unplugged circle song swap style acoustic music jam. And bring chords/lyrics if you have them, or access them online at RMCC. Listeners encouraged. Let's share our love for GRATE music! We may have one plugged in bass. Parking is limited - please carpool.
December Potluck and Italian Dolomite slideshow
Garrett Hack and Jim Gold, Krista Karlson and Devin Karlson will share slides and stories of their hikes and crossing paths with each other in the Italian Dolomite Mountains in September.
Willow Wreaths and Ornaments Class
Willow Wreaths and Ornaments at Rices Mills Community Association.
Signup here: Woodfrogflowers.com
I'll bring an assortment of larger grapevine and smaller willow frames for you to decorate with dried flowers and twine! All participants will leave with one larger and one smaller decorated wreath (or ornament!). I'll also explain how to make your own willow and grapevine frames from local materials. $60
Dance!
Join us for a dance! We'll have a playlist of varied music including R&B, funk, classic rock, world music etc. All ages welcome! December 12, 7-9pm. Parking is limited - please carpool. Hosted by Maureen Burford and Alex Jaccaci. For more info, or to submit your favorite dance tunes for the mix, contact Alex .
Many thanks! Alex
Meditation Group
Meditation Group - Join us 6:00 - 7:30 for a time of mindfulness practice and meditation. The general rhythm of our group consists of coming together to practice sitting/walking meditation, reading from a dharma book, discussing, sometimes practicing different relational activities and ending with a Metta circle — a time to call in people/situations that could use some extra care, love and attention. . My dear friend Ginger Wallis will also be helping to facilitate. Everyone is welcome regardless of meditation experience! Form more information contact Steen Croitoru (They/them) or Ginger
Holiday Balsam Wreaths Class
Holiday Balsam Wreaths at Rices Mills Community Association.
Signup here: Woodfrogflowers.com
Get in the winter spirit and learn to make a 16" balsam wreath with local balsam and other natural foraged materials (think: birch bark, red dogwood, milkweed pods, cedar, an assortment of pinecones, etc). It's the same process as making a dried flower wreath, but with much easier (and delightfully fragrant) material to work with! $50
Wild Garden Workshop
The Wild Garden Workshop is a six week native gardening course for beginners and experienced gardeners on how to simultaneously create habitat for pollinators and other wildlife while creating beautiful and thriving yards that inspire and reconnect us to nature. The course dives into the science behind ecological gardening, as well as the fundamentals of perennial garden design.