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Joseph Cincotta, the principal architect of LineSync Architecture, admits that his grand ambition is to build a skyscraper and an airport.
Cincotta is well aware that the prospects of a design firm in Wilmington, Vermont building either of them is pretty remote.
Although this year, winter in Vermont may seem to be never-ending, on March 16, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is presenting a Masterworks program tantalizingly entitled, “Paris in the Spring.” Partnering with Brattleboro Music Center, the orchestra will be led by its...
The Center for Digital Arts (CDA) is doing something unusual: presenting a show with nothing created digitally. On Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., CDA will host the New England Home Movie Tour, which features handmade and homemade works by a group of artists from New England: Luther Price,
Acclaimed writer/director/producer Eric Schaeffer is coming home. The Latchis Theatre is bringing Schaeffer's newest film Boy Meets Girl to Vermont for a one-week run from Feb. 13-19. Although he lives in New York City, Schaeffer grew up in southern Vermont and attended Brattleboro Union High School in the 1970s. He now owns a house in Jamaica, where he spends time at least once a month. “The Latchis is part of my youth,” he says. “I had my first dates there.
These days poetry readings can be pretty dry affairs. Too often an author merely reads verse in front of a solemn and polite audience. But that is not the way it has to be. In the 1950s, beatniks gathered in coffeehouses to hear the latest would-be Ginsburg recite his poems accompanied by Miles Davis-styled jazz combos. In the “happenings” of the 60s, poets could read amidst the unveiling of multi-media art installation. On Feb. 13 and 14, at the Hooker-Dunham...
Two of the most innovative and provocative groups in World Music are joining forces for a 29-date American concert tour, with a stop on Feb. 9 at the Latchis Theatre. In association with Marlboro College, Kingdom County Productions presents its biggest event of this season: the exclusive northern New England concerts by America's premier Afrobeat big-band, Antibalas, and Marie Daulne's acclaimed Afro Pop vocal group, Zap Mama. The groups are collaborating like this for the first time. Antibalas and Zap...
Sick of the cold, snow, and ice? Sandglass Theater in Putney says it has a remedy for the wintertime blahs. Sandglass has resumed its Winter Sunshine series to provide - in the words of Shoshana Bass - “a lively respite from the cold, a creative interlude between snow shoveling and wood schlepping, and the shine of laughter through the darkness of our Vermont winter months.” Kicking off the eighth season of the series is “Queens is New York City” storyteller...
In the second concert of its 45th season, the Windham Orchestra, under the direction of Hugh Keelan, invites audience and players to a concert that he says is a great opportunity for inspiration and participation. Keelan is asking string players from all traditions to come and play with the orchestra in a performance of a piece he calls “a sublime masterpiece for massed strings”: Vaughan Williams' “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.” Keelan also wants wind and brass players...
