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Post Oil Solutions is engaging the arts community to help expand the efforts to raise awareness about the growing climate crisis.
“Post Oil Solutions needs to find different ways to raise consciousness and engage people in a more active involvement with the growing climate crisis, the major issue affecting everyone now,” founding director Tim Stevenson says.
After Images, Amy Arbus's newest collection of photographs, found its inspiration in a cocker spaniel. “An friend of mine, writer and actor David Pittu, who has worked with me on many of my series of photographs, recently got a cocker spaniel,” says Arbus. “As we were sitting together one...
Ten years ago, when The African Children's Choir gave a concert in Barry, Wales, the young Emily Gronow got so excited that she wanted to join the choir. She didn't. However, the choir came back again last March, and she fell in love with it all over again. If...
The BLUE Project wants to spread the word about autism. On Saturday, April 11, at the River Garden and Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS) is presenting a free family-friendly event to promote autism awareness. The BLUE Project will feature an assortment of activities designed for children and teens with autism and their families. “HCRS has an annual golf tournament that raises money for autism awareness,” says Michelle Emery, HCRS therapeutic activities coordinator. “With the money...
If Naulakha in Dummerston is perhaps the most forgotten attraction in southern Vermont, the reason probably is because the house that Rudyard Kipling built and lived in for four years is not usually open for people to tour. Now lovingly restored by The Landmark Trust USA to replicate how it looked when the Nobel Prize-winning author made it his home, Naulakha is available only for guests through vacation rentals. Once a year, however, Naulakha opens its doors to children and...
Dancer/choreographer Wally Cardona is currently an artist in residence at Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) in Guilford, where he is studying classical Burmese dance, as part of his multi-year project, The Set Up. According to Sara Coffey, VPL's founder and director, “He is a choreographer who is deeply interested in the place of dance in our culture - where it is and why it is. Dance being the main motor of his thought process, Cardona actively creates projects for his dance...
Gathering Threads: Contemporary Fiber Art, one of of five new exhibits that have recently opened at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), celebrates hand-woven creations that stretch the limits of fiber art. In the museum's Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery, 13 artists display work that is pushing the boundaries of traditional textile techniques into innovative, hybridized forms. Gathering Threads reveals the many ways fiber can be exploited for its vast emotional and symbolic potential. BMAC Chief Curator Mara...
Some theatrical revivals show us what things were like in the past. Others vividly speak to our lives today. First produced 50 years ago, Fire does both. On March 24, at 7:30 p.m., Bread & Puppet Theater will be coming to the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery in Brattleboro to perform one its very first productions, Fire. As Jon Mack, the director of Hooker-Dunham Theater, says, “Fire is a re-mounting of a show that was done some many years ago about...
