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As with the several other courses in photography previously taught at the school, the photography class offered by the In-Sight Photography Project at Leland & Gray Middle and High School last fall did not come with much of a pre-arranged agenda.
Michael Riley, a former AmeriCorps Vista employee of In-Sight who now works as one of the Brattleboro nonprofit's 10 dedicated volunteer teachers, listened to the students who signed up and developed a program around their interests.
Riley's focus: to keep the class centered on what is it like to live in Townshend.
The students were assigned to photograph historical sites in the area, primarily using a special type of equipment: the 4 x 5 view camera.
Imagine a day-long writing party across the state where members of the community can join to share, comment on, and support one another's works. That's exactly what happened on Feb. 7 when the Young Writers Project (YWP) encouraged schools in Vermont to take a moment out of their day...
The groups that joined the lineup for last Saturday night's ninth annual Collegiate A Cappella Concert might have come from all over the county, but the event is really a local happening, the show's producer, Dede Cummings, is eager to point out. “Every group that is performing has a...
This Saturday, the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) will sponsor the annual Northern Roots Festival. The day-long event brings together local and regional musicians representing the best of various northern musical traditions, including Irish, Scottish, English, Swedish, and French-Canadian. It includes participation workshops, concerts, pub sessions, a family dance, and evening performances. “There is such an exceptional community in Brattleboro of musicians who specialize in traditional music from the North that we wanted to provide a showcase for this stellar local...
Two plays opening this weekend at Hooker-Dunham Theater seem bent on proving that absurdism may not be so far from normal after all. The Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) presents DUMB.soprano, an evening of two one-act absurdist plays. Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Ben Stockman, will feature Eric Walther and James Gelter, while Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, directed by Sam Murphy, will feature Jonny Mack, Nancy Groff, Ran3dy Bright, Michelle Page, Kirsten Schrull, and Daniel Mitnik. Both plays...
Susan Dedell, director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir, believes that Bob Chilcott's “Salisbury Vespers” is just the tonic to help people get through the long, dreary Vermont winter. She finds this choral work “wholesome,” but - she quickly added - “not in a sappy way.” “It leaves you with a special, good feeling deep inside you, which should help to chase the winter blues away,” she says. At the First Baptist Church in Brattleboro this weekend, the Brattleboro Concert Choir...
You might say that it takes a village to make a book. Certainly that would seem the case with Waking the Dead in Real Time, a limited-edition, 48-page monograph written, designed, illustrated, and published by a group of talented men and women who live in and around Brattleboro. This unusual work, intended to bring history to life, includes excerpts from a forthcoming trilogy by writer David Blistein, who lives in East Dummerston. Filmmaker Ken Burns, who lives just up the...
Amanda Wilder has been working on her documentary since 2007 and is facing an ever-tightening financial environment in the current recession. So the Marlboro College graduate is trying a new funding source to complete the film. At the suggestion of Jay Craven, her teacher at Marlboro and the producer of the film, she has turned to an inventive online fundraising method called Kickstarter, which lets creative people from photographers to writers to filmmakers like Wilder seek people to donate money...
