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Director, stuntman, acrobat, lifeguard, reiki master, minister, and award-winning filmmaker Bill Forchion is now also an author.
Published by Dreamcatcher Entertainment last October, his Billosophy: Meditations on God, Movement and Miracles is a collection of stories about what he calls “a life lived fully and the impact those moments have made.”...
Shoot the Moon Theater Company has opened its 2017 season at the Hooker-Dunham Theater with a two-weekend run of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise. The show premiered Feb. 17-18 and continues at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25. The dramatic comedy by Japanese...
Shoot the Moon Theater Company opens its 2017 season at the Hooker-Dunham Theater with a two-weekend run of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17-18, and Feb. 24-25. The dramatic comedy by Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada made its New...
For aficionados of fine french pastries, Patricia Austin is revered as a treasure in Southern Vermont. The owner and operator of Wild Flour Vermont Bakery, which specializes in French- and European-style baking, Austin prepares desserts for Michael Fuller's upscale, 20-seat Brattleboro restaurant, T. J. Buckley's, located in a restored 1925 Worcester Dining Car on Elliot Street. Austin can be found in person each week at the Brattleboro Farmers' Market in the summer and Brattleboro Winter Market other times of the...
Danny Lichtenfeld, Director of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, believes that, at least in one way, science and natural history museums have it all over museums dedicated to fine art. In science and natural history museums, he said, patrons can have an interactive experience, while the cardinal rule in spaces dedicated to fine art has always been: Look, but don't touch. “In the world of art museums, you don't generally get to handle the artwork, let alone objects that...
BMAC presents a juried photography exhibit annually, but Mara Williams, chief curator of the Brattleboro Art Museum (BMAC), hoped to make this year's show different. Although she felt that the 2016 exhibition was very good and assembled many wonderful individual pieces, she didn't think it hung together that well as a whole. “In order to be more cohesive, this year we were searching for works that are great photographs which employ mixed media,” she says. Williams will lead a tour...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is presenting an immersive installation specifically site-designed for its Mary Sommer Room by Thetford-based artist Carolyn Enz Hack, on display now until March 5. Provocatively entitled Change Your Mind, this installation is composed from layers of mesh, screens, and reflective surfaces undulating above and around the viewer. “Encountering Carolyn Enz Hack sculpture is a full-body experience,” the installation's curator, Mara Williams, writes at the BMAC website. As viewers enter the confines of the small...
Kathy Leo, the founder and director of Hallowell Singers, last month published On the Breath of Song: the Practice of Bedside Singing for the Dying, a book that offers guidance and insight into the practice of singing for the dying and their families. Through the telling of true stories and over a decade of experience in song and spirit with the Hallowell hospice choir, Leo has written a guidebook for anyone offering end of life care or helping a loved...
