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Students from Hilltop Montessori Middle School in Brattleboro are headed to Alabama in early April as part of their study of the civil rights movement. The trip includes stops in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Ala., to allow students “to breathe, eat, and live the civil rights movement,” according to organizers.
One of the highlights of the trip is a visit with the Gee's Bend Quilters Collaborative. This year, in honor of the Gee's Bend community and their ongoing generosity, the students have made a quilt as a token of their appreciation, respect and friendship, which they will present during their visit.
(The quilting tradition in Gee's Bend goes back to the 19th century, when the community was the site of a cotton plantation owned by Joseph Gee.)
The Hilltop Montessori Middle School's visit to Gee's Bend is just one stop on an eight-day odyssey intended to bring home the reality that race continues to be a defining factor in the evolution of the American identity.
As part of its mission to help bring stimulating entertainment to Southern Vermont, Green Mountain Crossroads (GMC) is hosting a series of cultural events in April. The new nonprofit community-building organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allied communities launched in January and is already offering a...
Jennifer Grossi wants a place where people can express the feminine in a powerful way, a bit like what Virginia Woolf had envisioned for women almost a century ago. But Woolf might blush when she discovers what Grossi and her friends have in mind for a room of one's...
“March Into Spring,” an exhibit of still lifes, geometric paintings, and painted gourds by local artist Terry Carter, is showing in gallery spaces at All Souls Church during March and April. Carter received formal training in painting at the Art Institute of Boston and the Great River Arts Institute in Bellows Falls, and has shown in galleries around the area. This is her first solo exhibition. “But I have always done art,” she says. “Even when I was a rambunctious...
Vermont Theatre Company is continuing its “Green Room Connection” workshop series on Saturday, March 23, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Evening Star Grange. VTC kicked off the series in January to foster networking and development in community theater. Added to the slate are workshops in auditioning and theater games. Anyone interested in community theater, at any skill level, is welcome to attend. Snacks will be provided during the afternoon. Dinner is potluck, and volunteers from the Grange will...
Sandglass Theater is exploring the rich creative potential of people with late-stage dementia. On March 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro, the Putney-based theater company presents “D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks.” Set to a compelling original score by Paul Dedell, striking animated video segments by Michel Moyse, lighting design by Sabrina Hamilton, and sound by Finn Campman, the work will be performed with five puppets portraying Alzheimer's patients residing in a senior...
Jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson explains what brings her to the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) on Saturday, March 16, at 8 p.m., in concert with, “A World Tour in a Single Night.” “In a word, work,” she said, laughing. “That's my job, to go where the people want me. I travel around the world for concerts. I just did a wedding in Beirut that was really amazing. And often you don't know until the last minute where you might have to...
Join choreographer Reggie Wilson and two vocalists from his Fist and Heel Performance Group at a “Community Shout” for “(project) Moseses Project,” a dance performance work exploring representations of the Biblical figure Moses in story, myth, and history. Wilson is the first artist-in-residence through the Vermont Performance Lab's new Hatchery Project, a multi-year collaborative residency partnership supporting dance and other performance artists. Guests are invited to add their voices and bodies to this performance, which VPL Director Sara Coffey calls...
