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“The Brattleboro Literary Festival has gotten so big that it has become more difficult to promote what there is to see,” says Sandy Rouse, the festival's organizer and co-founder.
“We are bringing in 52 authors for 40 events, and that is not including our local authors who are part of the open reading hosted by Write Action, which brings participants up to 60,” she explains.
Photographer Tom Singleton says he believes that the art of photography is about seeing the world in special ways. “Through photographs you capture your vision to pass on. Photography doesn't just record a document but rather an experience. When that shutter snaps, sometimes it comes out great and sometimes...
Have you ever wondered how you would survive if you were lost in the woods? Or how you'd manage in a global emergency resulting in food shortages? Combining his love for festivals and the wilderness, Ben Riseman and friends are attempting to address such concerns in a fun and...
Author and performer Kali Quinn returns to southeastern Vermont to perform her double-billed solo performances, now a single work. Quinn has blended two of her one-act plays into a unified, one-woman drama she says is a work of creative compassion. On Sept. 25 and 27 at 7 p.m., and on Sept. 28, at 2 p.m., at the New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) in Brattleboro, Quinn unveils the world premiere of her two-act “Overture to a Thursday Morning.” According to Quinn,
Separately, Sandglass Theater in Putney and the Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) are well known for innovative productions that push the artistic envelope. So, what happens when they collaborate for the first time? The answer is bringing another artistic collaboration from New Orleans to Southern Vermont for a residency. Sandglass and VPL are teaming with a pair New Orleans theater companies, Mondo Bizarro and Artspot Productions, to present a very unusual theatrical performance, Cry You One. Originally performed in October of...
On Sunday, Sept. 14, Sandglass Theater and Vermont Performance Lab present the first event of a two-week residency of Cry You One, a collaboration of New Orleans theater groups Mondo Bizarro and ArtSpot Productions. The residency, part of Sandglass' “Voices of Community” series, kicks off with the Jumbo Gumbo Combo at Next Stage Arts Project in Putney. The evening begins at 5:30 with a Louisiana gumbo supper prepared by the Sandglass board of directors under the tutelage of Scott Ainslie,
Two local visual artists, Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, realized that while Brattleboro has long been an area with a lot of working artists, the town actually has few galleries dedicated to showcasing high-quality works of art. So they opened one. On Thursday, Sept. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m., Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts celebrates its grand opening by featuring paintings by Giddings and Mitchell, Doug Trump, and Lauren Olitski; blown glass by Josh Bernbaum; photography by Chris Triebert; and monumental...
For the past month, San Francisco based choreographer Alex Ketley and dancer Sarah Woods have been engaged in a four-week research and development residency at Vermont Performance Lab (VPL), getting to know what social dance and concert dance means to Vermonters. “Although I have often performed works in California, New York and Europe, my entire dance career has been for people who live in cities,” Ketley says. “I wanted to find out what dance, in particular, contemporary dance, might mean...
