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The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) opens the new year with Open Call NNE (North-Northeast), its annual juried exhibit that showcases established, mid-career, and emerging New York State and New England artists working in all media.
The exhibit, which runs from Jan. 9 through March 12, features 12 artists from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont will display work in various media including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, and textiles.
Jon Mack is somewhat surprised that running the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery (H-D) should still be fun. After about 18 months of managing the small theater in downtown Brattleboro that's tucked away inside a building that once was an old shoe factory, Mack says the place “is actually doing...
More than 100 community members have donated their time to help bring to the stage a new production of The Wizard of Oz at the New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) from Dec. 3 to 13. “A village of artisans have come together to volunteer to build our production of...
Puppeteer and educator Finn Campman is coming home for Thanksgiving. On Saturday, Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m., Sandglass Theater, a 60-seat performance space that specializes in combining puppets with music, actors and visual imagery, will showcase Campman's Of Bread and Paper. Campman, of Putney, had been an integral member of Sandglass from when he first began working with puppets there about 25 years ago until his teaching career made touring with the company impossible. Inspired by Roma folk tales, Of...
Visual artist Craig Stockwell may be known primarily for abstract painting, but increasingly he has become interested in finding ways that storytelling and history can play a part in his artistic process. Consequently, a genealogy of Stockwell's ancestors who have lived in and around Brattleboro for generations has proven to be an ideal subject for his new drawing commissioned by the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC). “About a year ago, Mara Williams [the chief curator of BMAC] invited me...
“I have been chanting every day for most of my life but I really don't fully understand it,” says Susan Dedell, who this weekend is bringing together a group of experts to explore what chant is all about. In essence, chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds that becomes a heightened and stylized form of speech. Sometimes chant is considered music. Chant may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly...
Two eminent performers of traditional folk music will be joining forces to sing “Jubilee Jim Fisk,” a song about Brattleboro's own Jim Fisk, the notorious Robber Baron of the Gilded Age. It's one of the highlights of a very special concert that celebrates the folk music composed by a remarkable family in Southern Vermont. In a benefit for the Friends of the Library, Tony Barrand and Keith Murphy, on Friday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room...
Last month, the Southeast Friends of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) had a reception at the Brooks House Atrium to announce a new initiative to bring more VSO events to Brattleboro. The organization's members also wanted to introduce to the community the new executive director of the VSO, Benjamin Cadwallader. “The VSO truly serves everyone in Vermont,” says Cadwallader. “It is the only state symphony orchestra in the country that performs throughout the state.” People in southern Vermont may be...
