Do you wonder what the letters LGBTQ mean? Has the public discussion left you with questions like: How many people identify this way? Why do people often put a plus sign at the end? What does queer mean? What is the difference between sex and gender? How do you know what pronouns to use?

Bryan Memorial Gallery annual “Gems” exhibition featuring small artworks — 8 inches by 10 inches or smaller — is now open through Dec. 23 at its 180 Main St., Jeffersonville.

Join Vermont students, advocates, nonprofit leaders, equity directors and others for a panel discussion of students and administrators on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Center for Community & Social Justice at Champlain College in Burlington.

In late autumn, well past the showy blossoms of summer, after even fall’s late bloomers have faded and the trees have dropped their leaves, there is one shrubby plant still putting on a flower show: American witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana).

Kick off the holiday season with Bella Voce women’s chorus and its rendition of Benjamin Britten’s Christmas classic, “A Ceremony of Carols,” with guest harpist Rebecca Kauffman as the concert’s centerpiece, Saturday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. at the College Street Congregational Church, 256 College St., Burlington.

Meet raptors up close with the Vermont Institute of Natural Science on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1-2 p.m. at Peoples Academy auditorium, Copley Avenue, Morrisville.

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