March Arts Marathon:

March Arts Marathon

CVRAN March Arts Marathon 2025

Following the great success of the 2024 Marathon, we are pleased to announce that the fifth March Arts Marathon is now open for registration. We couldn’t have done it without the talented, dedicated writers and artists who, with their sponsors, raised approximately $68,000 and in the process created a unique and vital creative community.

We hope that those of you who participated in the 2024 Marathon will return in 2025 with new work. And that writers and artists new to the Marathon will join in.

We’re looking for creative artists at every level – first-time, long-established, and everything in between – to help CVRAN raise funds for the asylum seekers and Afghan refugees we are supporting in Central Vermont.

Individual writers and artists who wish to participate will commit to a daily creative practice six days each week in March. Poems, essays, non-fiction, stories, sketches, paintings, photographs, fabric art, multimedia, and multi-genre pieces – anything is possible. In turn the artists’ sponsors will commit to supporting the artists in their artistic practice and will receive copies of the artists’ work over email, Instagram, or in a blog six days each week in March. Writers and artists also have the option to participate as a team of up to four people.

All money raised will go toward housing, living expenses, legal fees and other support services for the asylum seekers and refugees whom CVRAN assists in Central Vermont. Some of those support services include furniture and household supplies, transportation, English language practice, shopping and budgeting, a matching car fund, and friendship.

A BIG thank you to our Founding Donors who have made the March Arts Marathon possible:

Arne and Deborah Abramowitz
Sam and Michele Clark
Darryl Bloom
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