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Long before she created her popular daily newspaper comic strip “Rhymes With Orange,” Hilary B. Price was fired from her job as a pizza waitress. As her boss explained, “You're a lovely girl, but slow, and you attract trouble wherever you go.”
Price brought some of her trouble to Brattleboro last Saturday when she delivered the keynote speech at Scholastic Art & Writing Awards ceremony at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
“I love to do talks,” Hilary says. “My job can be very solitary. I probably have the wrong personality for the profession I have chosen, since thinking up and drawing cartoons requires a lot of time alone. And I love to be with people. So giving talks is a great opportunity to go out and meet people, and they are lot of fun for me.”
Her recent appearances at Bellows Falls Union High School and the Rockingham Free Public Library attracted the attention of Susan Calabria, education curator at BMAC. She contacted Price about speaking at the Scholastic Awards ceremony at the museum.
Facing depression doesn't have to be depressing. That's what David Blistein reports in his newly published book, David's Inferno: My Journey Through the Dark Wood of Depression (Hatherleigh Press). With wit and sensitivity, he describes his nervous breakdown and his two-year struggle with major depression. The book's foreword is...
What do Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Joyce Carol Oates, and Myla Goldberg all have in common? All got an artistic boost as winners in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, a national organization that for 90 years has recognized emerging youth excellence in...
This year, the New England Center For Circus Arts' “Circus Spectacular” annual fundraiser is both a community celebration and a homecoming. For the first time, guest artists include several of the school's graduates who now perform in prestigious circus venues worldwide. For two remarkable shows - on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 3, at 1 p.m. - the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro will offer a cornucopia of world-class performers in high flying trapeze, aerial silks, partner...
Is teaching peace through a classic short story a lot of bull? That's what New England Youth Theatre's junior company asks as it presents Ferdinand the Bull, directed and adapted by Peter Gould, on Friday, Feb. 22, at 4 and 7 p.m., and Saturday. Feb. 23, at 2 and 7 p.m. With blessings from American author Munro Leaf's estate, Gould and NEYT have created a new adaptation of the classic short story The Story of Ferdinand, about that beloved Spanish...
Can a concert create community? That's what some residents of a Vermont village struggling to keep its identity are putting to the test. As part of an ongoing series of music events, the South Newfane Schoolhouse presents The Stevens Sperling Blues Project on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m.. Consisting of Pat Stevens, Jason Sperling, Wyman Shonk, Rich Gillis, Dan DeWalt, Ron Kelley, and Pete Biolsi, this new ensemble promises an intimate night of blues. The concert is a benefit...
The Vermont Center for Photography presents “Daydreamers & Night Wanderers,” a two-woman exhibition of photographs by Kirsten Hoving and Emma Powell, who also happen to be mother and daughter. The exhibition features work from a series by each artist: Powell's large-scale, toned cyanotypes from her series, “The Shadow Catcher's Daughter,” and Hoving's archival digital prints from her series, “Night Wanderers.” The exhibition runs through Feb. 24 on Fridays and Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m., and on Sundays from 11...
What happens when a classical chamber ensemble performs music inspired by Brazilian popular song and dance in a jazz center? Partake of this multicultural stew on Sunday, Feb. 24, when the Wistaria Chamber Music Society presents “Café Buenos Aires,” an evening of tango at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) in Brattleboro. An hour-long tango class/demonstration for mixed levels, led by instructor Stephen Voorhees, starts at 2:30 p.m. The performance that follows at 3:30 showcases the talents of several of the...
