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After two years of hard work, Brattleboro artist Scot Borofsky has completed another section of his ambitious “Brattleboro Downtown Pattern Project” with a collection of 10 site paintings of patterns on private walls on Flat Street.
The designs Borofsky used in this group of outdoor artworks were inspired by the patterns found in the ancient cultural artifacts of Native American and African art, including their beadwork, weaving, pottery design, and architectural decoration.
He says he reinterpreted these patterns through the medium of spray paint, carefully considering the color palette of each mural with its location.
All the pattern murals on Flat Street are supported through donations. In the Moment Music sponsored the pieces finished in 2012; this year the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center has provided $200 in “BEAN Grant” money. Sherwin-Williams provided $100 in outdoor primer paint, and $197 was raised at Gallery Walk through public donations.
On Sunday, Nov. 10, at 4 p.m., the Wistaria Chamber Music Society brings its annual Schubertiad to Centre Congregational Church on Main Street. For nine years, Wistaria has performed a different Schubertiad in Massachusetts; this is the first time the ensemble is bringing a Schubertiad to Brattleboro. David Perkins,
On Earth Day 1990, the United Nations invited 40 astronauts and cosmonauts to the General Assembly. Represented were the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. Six of these, all from different countries, were selected to address the audience in their native tongue, and asked to describe...
Three nonprofits are collaborating to bring a unique Haitian artist to perform for the first time in Southern Vermont. Next Stage Arts Project and Green Mountain Crossroads have joined forces with Sandglass Theater to kick off the 2013 “Voices of Community” series with the residency of poet and theater artist Lenelle Moïse. Moïse will present her one-woman show “Womb-Words, Thirsting” on Nov. 2 and 3 at Sandglass Theater in Putney. Moïse is a powerhouse of a performer, says Kirk Murphy,
On Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m., the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) in Brattleboro presents the hometown premiere of “World Circus,” the first feature film of its director and producer, Angela Snow. For two months, Snow and her crew followed five top circus acts from around the world as each prepared for the Academy Awards of circus competitions, the Monte Carlo Circus Festival. In collaboration with the World Circus Federation, and including interviews from the founder of...
In the fall of 2011, artist and musician Marek Bennett journeyed to Eastern Europe. Traveling though his great-grandmother's native region of Eastern Slovakia, Bennett lived with distant cousins and studied local stories, food, languages, folk music, and artwork. He also took part as his relatives observed seasonal traditions and celebrated holiday harvests. At the same time, Bennett saw firsthand how the Greek debt crisis brought the European Union to the brink of disaster, toppling the Slovak government and collapsing the...
When writer and performing artist Seth Lepore's grandmother died last year, he was on tour. The former Vermonter was devastated. He had been very close to her, and he knew a vital part of his existence was now gone. As a way to deal with his grief, Lepore decided to write a memoir about their relationship. But not long into the project, he realized that a one-man show would be the best vehicle to pay tribute to a woman that...
Writer, poet, and environmental activist Dede Cummings is inviting everyone to a party celebrating the launch of Green Writers Press (GWP), a new Vermont-based publishing house that she founded earlier this year. Cummings says that the mission of GWP is to publish books about how places shape and are shaped by the people who inhabit them. “GWP wants to show how poetry and art are a means of engendering empathy, illuminating interconnection, prompting new ways of imagining and living, and...
