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Sandglass Theater in Putney is the recipient of a $100,000 grant from New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project for its newest theater piece, Babylon: Journeys of Refugees.
One of only eight productions from the entire country to be selected, Babylon is a powerful and evocative work that tells the story of today's refugees: their sense of home, their arduous journeys, and the challenges of resettlement.
As he relocates it to his home studio in West Brattleboro, Michael Moyse hopes to jump start the innovative art center he founded more than two decades ago with a free workshop. On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18 and 19, The Center for Digital Art (with support from C.X.
The award-winning Alash Ensemble is bringing their remarkable musical traditional back to Brattleboro. Alash is a throat singing band from Tuva that performs traditional Tuvan music (albeit with some nontraditional influences). The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present this captivating music on Friday, Aug. 17, at 8 p.m.,
After an intensive search, Jonathan Harvey has been named music director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir. Harvey succeeds Susan Dedell, who announced her retirement last year after three decades leading the longest-performing ensemble of Brattleboro Music Center. Created by Blanche Moyse even before she established BMC, the Brattleboro Concert Choir performs an exciting and challenging repertoire, ranging from classic choral masterpieces to rarely heard and newly commissioned works. “We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Harvey as the next music director...
Karla Baldwin frankly admits that she has difficulty describing Love and Information, the new play by Caryl Churchill that she is directing for Apron Theater. “It is easier to say what it is not,” she confesses. “Love and Information is a work that has no plot, no characters to speak of, and no development. In any concise way, it is even hard to say what the play precisely deals with. We're very far removed from the dramaturgy of realist dramas...
This week, an old friend is coming back to Yellow Barn. Returning for his second summer as Composer-in-Residence, composer and electric guitarist Steven Mackey is spending this week working with Yellow Barn musicians on his compositions, performing in the Big Barn, and speaking to audiences about the works programmed for the week. Mackey is regarded as one of the leading composers of his generation. His wide-ranging compositions include orchestral and chamber music as well as dance and opera. He regularly...
People loved to be fooled. So thinks magician Chris Lengyel, who has made a career of deceiving his audiences. “Magic is the one art where people will pay money to get lied to,” Lengyel says. “Even if they know that what they are seeing in a magic act are just tricks, they still watch entranced. Perhaps they want to figure out how it's done, or else they like to see appearances played around with. People are attracted to thinking that...
Did you ever wonder what poets think about when they sit down to write their poems? A new book from University of Pittsburgh Press addresses not only this but many other issues concerned with the art of writing poetry. I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets, edited by the current poet laureate of Vermont, Chard deNiord, contains conversations with eminent contemporary American poets. Mainly over the past five years, deNiord interviewed Natasha Trethewey, Jane...
