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Students can learn a lot from a river.
Carol Berner, a Marlboro resident and coordinator of the River of Words program, believes that teachers and their students have much to gain by promoting education through discovering the wonders of their environment.
River of Words (ROW) was co-founded in 1995 by writer and activist Pamela Michael and U.S. Poet Laureate Robert L. Hass, who held the post from 1995 to 1997.
This national organization, dedicated to international watersheds, connects people throughout the United States and the world who are committed to teaching the art and poetry of place to young people.
Pavel Zuštiak just might be the only major choreographer working in America who got his start performing as the Czechoslovakian equivalent of a Mouseketeer. “I was a television star in my home country when I was 9, in an hour-long show that was aired once a month,” says Zuštiak.
“110 Llandaff,” a short film written and directed by Jane Burton, an instructor in improvisation at the New England Youth Theatre (NEYT), begins shooting in Brattleboro on Sept. 9. Burton's semi-autobiographical film, stars David Koechner, Paula Pell, and Cassandra Dunn. It also boasts a supporting cast of 18 NEYT...
Guilford Free Library invites the public to a summer evening of music and light refreshments in a beautiful setting that only Vermont can provide. On Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m., two world-class musicians perform a benefit cello celebration to support the work of the Guilford Free Library. Guilford resident Judith Serkin, with her colleague Paul Wiancko, will perform cello duets spanning four centuries of music at the historic Guilford Center Meeting House. Tickets are $25, and include a selection of...
Two young veterans of the New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) in Brattleboro, and a seasoned 12-year-old actress from Rutland star in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the final production of the Weston Playhouse's 2013 season. Cast members who assemble in Weston for productions typically hail from New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, or perhaps are just off the national tour of a Broadway show. This year, the stage doors of the Weston Playhouse have opened to talented young performers from southern...
On Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1, The Future Collective hosts its second annual Future Fest, a three-day music and arts festival expected to draw more than 40 bands and performance artists from all over New England. Music performances on Friday night and Saturday are at the Stone Church, 210 Main St., Brattleboro. Sunday, an outdoor variety show and carnival in Brattleboro includes games, skill shares, and acoustic performances. The location will be revealed in a zine guests receive...
Independent artist Meg Donahue wondered what would happen if a whole town started watching for angels. She asked herself how her community might react if, for one month, angels started appearing in Brattleboro in the most unexpected places: on the parking meter, behind the co-op, inside a shopping cart, in a coffee shop, on the steeple of the old church that is now a dance studio. “You are driving into town to run errands,” she says. “It's hot, you can't...
On Saturday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m., internationally acclaimed blues musician Little Toby Walker will perform a benefit concert for Twilight Music at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery at 139 Main St. in downtown Brattleboro. Special guests Steve Chipman on acoustic guitar and Thom Huntington on upright bass are taking time out of their world tour to open the show with a 45-minute set. Walker will lead a blues workshop from 1 to 2:30 p.m. that day. Only 12 seats...
